In college our drawing instructor projected a blurred image on a screen.
The image was unidentifiable so that the students could not assume
shape or form as they drew it. Slowly, the instructor sharpened the
image as we students feverishly worked to modify our drawings based on
changing information. Finally, the image came into view. 
It was Edward Weston's iconic photograph of a sea shell. After that, I searched to know more about him.
Edward Weston (1886-1958) was born at a time when photography was becoming available to a wider audience - thanks to the inventions of George Eastman (Eastman Kodak). For it was on Weston's 16th birthday that he would receive his first camera - a Kodak box camera. He was hooked.
At age 20, Weston's photograph titled, Spring, Chicago would be published in a full-page spread in the magazine Camera and Darkroom.
He would become a recognized and respected portrait photographer in
Glendale, CA. However, he wanted to grow artistically so he raised the
money to go to New York. He wanted to study with the foremost
photographer of the age - Alfred Stieglitz.
Weston was encouraged
by Stieglitz and his wife, Georgia O' Keeffe as well as other artists
and photographers to continue his exploration of abstract modernism.
This would lead to Weston to his most famous period wherein he
photographed vegetables in a sculptural form.
Below are some of his vegetables works. While admiring the beauty of forms, can you identify the objects?
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