Edward Weston

Weston photographed peppers, shells, cabbage leaves, nudes and the dunes at Oceano with a large-format camera stopped down for front-to-back sharpness, then made contact prints the same size as the negative so every texture is there to touch with your eyes. Pepper No. 30 of 1930 is famous, but the language is in the whole series: a single form, lit softly, filling the frame until it becomes abstract. His sons Brett and Cole printed and continued the work, and his partner Charis Wilson co-wrote the books and appears in many of the nudes.