I'll start a thread that folks can use to re-direct us to excellent examples of 'soft focus' from history past that they run across on the 'web'. Doesn't have to be from 'shorpy' but they posted a wonderful example of Soft Focus at it's zenith, 100 years ago. This one by Arnold Genthe.


Does not get much better than that. Didn't Genthe have a connection some how with Weston's wife Charis Wilson? The picture is the link to shorpy.