Edward Weston has been called called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers" and "one of the masters of the 20th century photography".
Edward Henry Weston was born on the 24th March 1886 to 1st January, 1958.
Over his 40 year career in photography, ranging in photographing a wide range of subjects, from landscapes, still lifes, portraits, nudes, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies.
Style:
Photographer in a range of styles.
The photo on the right shows an image of a rock like object. The image is black and white, this gives the photo a romantic and emphasises the wetness of the object, this could connote skin and that the object is actually two objects embracing, as it the two tips could be seen as heads.
It is said that he developed a "quintessentially American, and specially Californian, approach to modern photography" because of his focus on the people and places of the American West. In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 x 10 view camera. Some of his most famous photographs were taken of Point Lobos, California, near where he lived for many years.
Major Exhibitions:
- 1970, the Rencontres d'Arles festival (France) presented an exhibition "Hommage à Edward Weston" and an evening screening of the film The Photographer (1948) by Willard Van Dyke.
- Nov. 25, 1986-March 29, 1987 Edward Weston in Los Angeles at Huntington Library
- 1986 Edward Weston: Color Photography at Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
- May 13 - August 27, 1989 Edward Weston in New Mexico at Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe
- Edward Weston : the Last Years in Carmel at The Art Institute of Chicago, June 2-Sep. 16, 2001, and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Mar. 1-July 9, 2002.
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