"Edward and I both agreed with the view of a Greek friend of ours, Jean Varda, who was fond of saying there were three perfect shapes in the world ... the hull of a boat, a violin and a woman's body". -Charis Wilson
in 1937, Edward Weston received the first Guggenheim fellowship awarded to a photographer. The fellowship allowed Weston and his assistant (model + muse + later wife), Charis Wilson, to spend a year traveling through Death Valley and the West to focus full-time on landscape photography. most importantly, together the couple wrote numerous essays on photography and the arts.
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