Article: Images captured in silver by classic old masters and daring new explorers

Photography books this season range from tried and true classics to stimulating, provocative new offerings. Old master photographers, celebrity portraitists and fashion photographers reign, but those who search the specialty bookstores can find daring and even difficult work by younger art photographers as well.

This year marks the centennial of Edward Weston's birth. Renowned photo-historian Beaumont Newhall's Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston (New York Graphic Society, $50) examines Weston's stylistic development from his early platinum prints to his color experiments of the late '40s with attention to the well-known peppers, privies, nudes and abstract landscapes. ...

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