Richard Thomson is senior lecturer in art history at the University of Manchester in England

Julien-David Le Roy

was a naturalist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

In Focus: Edward Weston Sale Richard Thomson is senior lecturerBrett Abbott Edward Weston (18861958) helped define twentieth century American photography. Weston wed machine age aesthetics with vernacular subjects, pursuing Modernism as a way of seeing. He produced works of art using subject matter as wide ranging as sea shells, green peppers, sand dunes, and nudes, and he set a standard for elegant composition and print technique for generations of photographers. The more than fifty works included here were made