I made this photo during a 1975 Friends of Photography workshop field session. I had been Ansel’s assistant for just about a year, and my primary workshop duties were helping Ansel with his sessions and also helping out at some of the other sessions.
One of the groups I was assisting met in a wooded area that was a favorite of photographer Wynn Bullock. The light was beautifully soft. I tried to stay out of the way of the students and instructor, but the 80-200mm lens on my Nikkormat gave me the opportunity to capture this beautiful, almost sculptural design of our session model.
Shortly after the workshop, I made my first print of the image. Ansel asked if he could use a slide of it in a photo lecture he was going to be doing at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. When he returned to Carmel after giving that talk, Ansel told me that the day after his lecture, someone called him at his hotel and asked about the "Weston nude" he had shown. Ansel told him that it was not a Weston photo, but that of his associate, Alan Ross. The guy hung up!
Nikkormat 35mm, Tri-X Film
General Sizing and Edition Information:
Limited Edition Prints signed and numbered in an edition of 100. Each print is made personally by me, printed either on Ilford Multigrade Classic fiber paper and selenium toned or on Canson Platine paper using a Canon Pro-1000 printer and my personal printing profiles. Mounted and over-matted on 4-ply or 8-ply museum board using the most current industry standards for archival permanence.
Open Edition Archival Pigment print made personally by me on Canson Rag Photographique paper using a Canon Pro-1000 printer and my personal printing profiles. Mounted and over-matted on 4-ply museum board using the most current industry standards for archival permanence. Digitally signed.
Sizing:
Open Edition 8x10 - Image size approximately 8x10 inches, over-matted to 11x14 on 4-ply museum board
11 x 14 – Image size approximately 9 x 11.5 inches, over-matted to 16x20 on 4-ply museum board.
16x20 – Image size approximately 14x18, over-matted to 22 x28 on 4-ply museum board