How did Edward Weston’s nude photographs change in the mid-1930s?

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Edward Weston at Point Lobos, 1945, photograph by Imogen Cunningham. — Edward Weston *Edward Weston at Point Lobos, 1945*, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.

By the mid-1930s, Edward Weston’s approach to photographing nudes underwent a significant evolution. Rather than continuing to depict the human form as an abstract, anonymous subject, his work began to represent specific individuals. These later photographs often featured the subjects' faces and captured them existing within a particular environment at a specific moment in time.1

This shift mirrored the broader development of his artistic style, which moved from the self-contained, shallow pictorial space of his earlier close-up studies toward a more complex engagement with the world around him.1