Lodima Press proudly announces a significant publishing event in the world of fine photography books: a inneleen-volume series on the portfolios of Brett Weston. Each book in the series will be published in a softcover edition of 1,000 copies that range in price from $34.95 to $49.95 and a hardcover edition of 100 numbered copies, each priced at $ 100. The books are available individually or with a discount by subscription. Between 1939 and 1980 Brett Weston produced sixteen limited edition portfolios of original photographs. He believed passionately in the power of his original prints and chose the portfolio as the way to reach an expanded audience while still maintaining control over image quality. Today, Weston's original portfolios are rare, expensive, and relatively inaccessible in museums, archives, libraries, or private collections.

Most of the photographs in these new books have never before been reproduced. Printing technology now makes in possible to bring the Brett Weston portfoliosto a larger audience in reproductions that, in their rich detail, tonal scale and color, surface quality, and aesthetic appeal, are almost indistinguishable from the original photographs. Printed in Belgium by Salto in 600-line screen quadtone on heavy coated stock, the photographs in "San Francisco, and in the complete series, are reproduced actual size except for Weston's 11 x 14 contact prints. To recreate the feeling of the original portfolios, great care has been taken not only with the reproduction of the photographs, but with every aspect of these books. Where there is text in the portfolios, it is reproduced in facsimile, and the color of each book's cover has been selected to match thecovers of the original portfolio cases. Brett's close friend, art historian Roger Aikin, h.