Almost a century apart, Walt Whitman and Edward Weston chronicled a changing America in poetry and photographs of enduring power. Writing "Leaves of Grass’’ before the Civil War, Whitman celebrated ...

Edward Weston was born in 1886 in Highland Park, Ill., and took up photography at the age of 16. His signature style was crisply focused images of organic subjects -- including peppers, shells, trees ...

Almost a century apart, Walt Whitman and Edward Weston chronicled a changing America in poetry and photographs of enduring power. Writing "Leaves of Grass’’ before the Civil War, Whitman celebrated ...