Set of four original vintage 8"x10" portraits, each mounted on original card and signed "Edward Weston, Carmel".

Inscribed "Lois Rosamond Edbrooke/ Born August 4, 1913/ Taken in Carmel in 1929 by Edward Weston/ Age 16"

These works were taken by Weston on July 21, 1929. Printed, signed, titled and mounted by Edward Weston himself, these works are unique and as such are some of the rarest Weston photographs in existence.

In the Weston Day Books entry for September 20, 1928 Edward describes an encounter at his exhibition in San Francisco:
'Recently a strange episode took place, which suggests the old platitude, "The world's a small place after all," etc. A man came in to look at work whom I recognized in a flash as a boyhood playmate I had not seen for thirty years, or since I was twelve!
I was really startled, as though a ghost appeared.
"I know you" I said. "What is your name?" I did not need to ask, only to be formal, for he did not know me, — had been attracted by my work.
"Louis Edbrooke," he answered.
"I am Eddie Weston."
"Not Eddie Weston I played with in Chicago!"
Then followed reminiscencing, looking backwards to youthful days,
- 3975 Drexel Boulevard - once a fashionable street,
- Gertrude, his sister, my first calf love,
- Lake Michigan, playing in ice caves, jumping the ice floe, fishing for perch in the sunrise,
- the haunted barn. What child does not know some haunted place?
"I have not been in an artist's studio for years," said Louis, "I am a realtor."
I suppose we only have the past in common now, and that cannot last long.'

On July 22, 1929 Weston wrote: "A sitting yesterday and one today. Yesterday's of the daughter of Louis Edbrooke my boyhood friend, who found me again in Carmel."
The date is intruiging as it is literally in the midst of several weeks of entries describing trying to get the perfect negative of certain peppers...

All showing some silvering at edges as is to be expected but are otherwise in very good condition. Two are matted to 16"x 20". One framed behind museum glass in a vintage gold wooden frame with metal trim.