Weston left behind the pictorial style, leaving a major influence on post-modern and abstract photography, as part of was part of an artistic movement taken by Organicism and Vitalism, in what became known as Elan Vital, which refers to the living essence behind the visible object/subject.
Explanation:
He believed that photography could show the essence of life, as it´s presented in his work with clouds, bodies, smokestacks, and different elements of nature, shown as interrelated whit a whole, as symbols of the life within the external shape of objects.
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