Brett Weston discovered Hawaii in his mid-sixties and was almost seventy years old when this portfolio was printed. Although he kept his house and many of his business contacts in Carmel, he built a new house on the Island of Hawaii, and lived there most of each year. He was residing there when he died in 1993.

The photographs in Hawaii are some of the most joyful, sensitive, and lyrical he ever produced, and almost all contain something alive-even the lava seems alive. He obviously delights in the curves of the huge Hawaiian leaves, branches, and roots, which are as sensuous as any nude, and he seems content to let the shapes of the leaves carry the picture, without interpreting them too much through overly clever or artful compositions. As he had done in previous portfolios, Weston juxtaposes different subjects with similar forms to make surprising connections.

In his last portfolios Brett Weston arrived at a clarified, lofty, peaceful, harmonious vision, for which the landscape of Hawaii was the perfect inspiration.

The portfolio contains an introduction by Boone Hekiki Morrison and the book has an afterword by Roger Aikin.

12 1/2" x 12 1/2", 15 reproductions, 48 pages

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