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Photography review

Edward Weston meets Walt Whitman at the MFA

By Mark Feeney

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 27, 2012

If you were to pick someone whose poetry had an affinity with the photography of Edward Weston would it be Walt Whitman? With Weston, it doesn’t matter whether the subject is a toilet or a pepper. His most characteristic images are sonatas for solo camera: lustrous, flawless, and tightly controlled.

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