Edward Weston

Dead Man, Colorado Desert 1937

When going through Edward Wetson's book of photography, there seemed to be a disterbing quietness within every picture. In some it was simply a beyond still landscape, while others like the one above, there was something dead (literally) about the piece itself. Whether or not the man in this photo is dead or not is beyond me, but by the looks of the rest of Westons photography, the man probably is. Looking at this photograph, one can see that this man had suffered greatly within the Colorado Desert. By looking at his face you can see the leathery sunburnt looking skin, that seems painful just by looking at it. His hands seem extremely dry, perhaps from the dehydration of his body from being out in the desert for a long period of time. The clarity of the photograph was extremely well done by Weston. He was able to get a hold of all of the little details from the face of the man nown to the slightest pebbles within the dirt. By Edward being able to do this, he was able to allow the viewers to grasp ever little struggle that lays upon the dead mans body.