Word: westons
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Most artists consider the destruction of their work a tragedy. Photographer Brett Weston has always considered it a necessity. Best known for haunting semi-abstract nature studies in the tradition of his famous father Edward, Weston vowed for years to destroy his negatives so that others could not make new prints from them after his death...
...80th birthday last week, Weston kept his vow. Surrounded by friends and family, he tossed hundreds of negatives into the living-room fireplace of his home in Carmel, Calif. Art historians and photography curators were horrified. The Center for Creative Photography, a photographic archive in Tucson, even sent a representative to Weston's home in an unsuccessful effort to persuade him to change his mind. Weston insisted that he was merely * limiting his legacy to work fashioned by his own hand...
...Nobody can print it the way I do," Weston explained. "It wouldn't be my work...
Like her contemporary Sylvia Plath, Sexton had a gift of the self- dramatizing and self-destructive kind. She was the mad housewife of Weston, Mass., beautiful if you caught her in the right light, "a possessed witch," as she thought of herself sometimes, "haunting the black air, braver at night." Both Plath and Sexton wound up as cautionary tales. In 1963 Plath stuck her head in an oven in London. Sexton told her psychiatrist, "Sylvia Plath's death disturbs me. Makes me want it too. She took something that was mine, that death was mine!" Eleven years later...
...Nancy Weston After months of suspense, thirtysomething's writers let her triumph over cancer and bumped off goldilocks Gary instead. But if the show is renewed, viewers may question whether the oh-so-plucky Nancy was worth the trouble. Why did she marry such a jerk, anyway...