![]() ![]() Producing nearly thirty different images in a four day period in August 1930, it was then that he first set the pepper in the funnel setting seen here. He described "I have been working so enthusiastically with the two peppers, - stimulated as I have not been for months.They are like carved obsidian, and can be placed in with my finest expression." ( Daybooks II, pp. Taking up the pepper again, he concentrated on it for much of that year and well into 1930, when he made the image offered here. He was already working with other natural forms shells and vegetables. ![]() In 1929, he settled into a studio in Carmel, where he would essentially remain until his death. He turned his focus to the pure qualities of his subjects form and how it filled a space, tightly cropping it within the frame. While there he began to address objects in his everyday world as potential subject matter. His Mexican period was an important step in organizing his way of seeing. In 1927, not long after his return to California from Mexico, Weston became interested in the pepper as a form. ![]()
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