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- ↑ Two Shells, Tate
- ↑ Edward Weston, The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California, vol. II, New York, 1966, pp. 21-22
- ↑ J. Paul Getty Museum
- ↑ Two Shells, Tate
- ↑ Edward Weston's Shells, 21 November 2020, Holden Luntz Gallery
- ↑ Two Shells, Tate
- ↑ The 73 most expensive photographs ever sold, Photography Talk
- ↑ Two Shells, Tate
- ↑ J. Paul Getty Museum
- ↑ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- ↑ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- ↑ The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
- ↑ Library of Congress