"Pepper 35P"

gelatin silver print on cardboard

signed, dated and titled (pencil) on verso (35P)

This image of a pepper is one of Edward Weston’s most iconic photographs. Peppers often curve in on themselves and can kind of twist a bit. And by putting us close to this one and lighting it so carefully, Weston almost elevates it to the status of a human figure.
The still life arrangement is, of course, one of the oldest subjects for artworks. What's fascinating about American artists working in the 1930s, like Edward Weston, is that they draw on many of these classical ways of working, but in new, modern ways.
(Esther Adler, MOMA New York, 2014)