He, She, It.

Dialogues between Edward Weston and Harry Callahan

This book and exhibition explores the photographs of two American masters, Harry Callahan and Edward Weston, through the relationships of vision and desire. While the well-known bodies of works have been understood as nudes or landscapes, this book looks beyond these categories, which here may be considered limitations, to propose a more ample and complex notion of erotic photography. „He, She, It“ proposes a spectacular reading of the images by Callahan and Weston through the relationship of the body and nature, but also, photography and affection: to the difference of the majority of erotic photography that seeks to impulse desire through visual pulsion (erotic photography as escopofile), in Callahan and Weston we find the extremely particular case of desire made image: one of the photographic subjects that sees, but also loves, another photographic subject. It is not, therefore, of a woman, but of their woman.