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Edward Weston
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Peter Krasnow, 1925, Edward Henry Weston (24 Mar 1886 - 1 Jun 1958), Oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/2059
Edward Weston

Born: Edward Henry Weston

Born: 1886, 24 March - US, IL, Highland Park
Died: 1958, 1 January
Gender: Male
Active: US
 
American landscape, still-life and nude photographer with a fascinating private life. Like Steichen before him, he experimented with photographing everyday objects, vegetables, nudes, dunes, using lighting and camera angle to show the item in a completely new light. He worked for the government on the Farm Security Administration project and set up the f/64 Group.
 
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Salvatore Piermarini, n.d., Portrait of Edward Weston, Carmel Highlands, California, 1945, Drawing, Provided by the artist - Salvatore Piermarini, LL/59194
Image: LL/59194
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Edward Weston, 1908, Self Portrait with Camera, Platinum print, J. Paul Getty Museum, LL/90697
Image: LL/90697
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Margrethe Mather, 1919, Portrait of Edward Weston, Platinum print, Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc, LL/73811
Image: LL/73811
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Margrethe Mather, 1921, Edward Weston, Platinum print, George Eastman Museum, LL/69943
Image: LL/69943
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Margrethe Mather, 1921, Edward Weston, Platinum print, Heritage Auctions, LL/60392
Image: LL/60392
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Margrethe Mather, 1922, Edward Weston, Platinum print, George Eastman Museum, LL/69944
Image: LL/69944
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Imogen Cunningham, 1923, Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather, Gelatin silver print, Christie's - New York, LL/130653
Image: LL/130653
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Imogen Cunningham, 1923, Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81322
Image: LL/81322
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Tina Modotti, 1923, Edward Weston with his Graflex Camera, Mexico, Gelatin silver print, Source requested, LL/1945
Image: LL/1945
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Tina Modotti, 1923, Portrait of Edward Weston with a Camera, Gelatin silver print, New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), LL/131035
Image: LL/131035
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Imogen Cunningham, 1923 (taken) 1960s (print), Edward and Margrethe 3 [Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather], Gelatin silver print, Swann Galleries - New York, LL/43864
Image: LL/43864
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Tina Modotti, 1924, Edward Weston, with his Seneca View Camera, Mexico, Gelatin silver print, Galerie Bilderwelt, LL/103223
Image: LL/103223
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Tina Modotti, 1924, Tepotzotlan, Semana Santo [Edward Weston in window], Gelatin silver print, George Eastman Museum, LL/6588
Image: LL/6588
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Unidentified photographer, 1924, August, Edward Weston and Tina Modotti, Mexico, Gelatin silver print, George Eastman Museum, LL/69941
Image: LL/69941
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Unidentified photographer, 1924, August, Edward Weston and Tina Modotti, Mexico, Gelatin silver print, George Eastman Museum, LL/69940
Image: LL/69940
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Unidentified photographer, 1924, August, Edward Weston and Tina Modotti, Mexico, Gelatin silver print, George Eastman Museum, LL/69939
Image: LL/69939
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Unidentified photographer (Mexican), 1924, August, Edward Weston and Tina Modotti, Mexico, Gelatin silver print, George Eastman Museum, LL/54469
Image: LL/54469
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Tina Modotti, 1924, February, Edward Weston, Gelatin silver print, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, LL/131036
Image: LL/131036
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Peter Krasnow, 1925, Edward Henry Weston (24 Mar 1886 - 1 Jun 1958), Oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/2059
Image: LL/2059
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Brett Weston, 1929-1942, Portfolio: Portraits Of My Father, [Portraits Of My Father], Gelatin silver print, Andrew Smith Gallery, LL/2357
Image: LL/2357
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Brett Weston, 1929-1942, Portfolio: Portraits Of My Father, [Portraits Of My Father], Gelatin silver print, Andrew Smith Gallery, LL/2356
Image: LL/2356
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Brett Weston, 1929-1942, Portfolio: Portraits Of My Father, [Portraits Of My Father], Gelatin silver print, Andrew Smith Gallery, LL/2355
Image: LL/2355
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Nickolas Muray, 1934, Edward Weston, George Eastman Museum, LL/7256
Image: LL/7256
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Johan Hagemeyer, 1935, Portrait of Edward Weston, Gelatin silver print, New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), LL/82135
Image: LL/82135
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Johan Hagemeyer, 1935, 24 May, Edward Weston, Negative, nitrate, Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, LL/92073
Image: LL/92073
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Johan Hagemeyer, 1935, 24 May, Edward Weston, Gelatin silver print, Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, LL/92057
Image: LL/92057
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Johan Hagemeyer, 1935, 24 May, Edward Weston, Negative, nitrate, Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, LL/92074
Image: LL/92074
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Johan Hagemeyer, 1935, 24 May, Edward Weston, Negative, nitrate, Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, LL/92075
Image: LL/92075
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Johan Hagemeyer, 1935, 24 May, Edward Weston, Negative, nitrate, Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, LL/92071
Image: LL/92071
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Johan Hagemeyer, 1935, 24 May, Edward Weston, Negative, nitrate, Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, LL/92076
Image: LL/92076
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Johan Hagemeyer, 1935, 24 May, Edward Weston, Negative, nitrate, Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, LL/92072
Image: LL/92072
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Johan Hagemeyer, 1935, 24 May, Edward Weston, Negative, nitrate, Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, LL/92077
Image: LL/92077
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Johan Hagemeyer, 1935, 24 May, Edward Weston, Negative, nitrate, Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, LL/92078
Image: LL/92078
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Johan Hagemeyer, 1935, 24 May, Edward Weston, Gelatin silver print, Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, LL/92079
Image: LL/92079
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Johan Hagemeyer, 1935, 24 May, Edward Weston, Negative, nitrate, Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, LL/92080
Image: LL/92080
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Johan Hagemeyer, 1935, 24 May, Edward Weston, Negative, nitrate, Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, LL/92081
Image: LL/92081
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Ansel Adams, 1937 (taken) 1976-1979 (print), Edward Weston at Tehaya Lake, Yosemite National Park, Gelatin silver print, Philadelphia Museum of Art, LL/71300
Image: LL/71300
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Ansel Adams, 1939, Edward Weston, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, LL/63096
Image: LL/63096
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Beaumont Newhall, 1940 (taken) (print), Edward Weston, Carmel, CA, Gelatin silver print, Phillips de Pury - New York, LL/27371
Image: LL/27371
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Brett Weston, 1940 (taken) 1970s (print), Portrait of Edward Weston, Silver print, Swann Galleries - New York, LL/27108
Image: LL/27108
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Brett Weston, 1940 (taken) 1976 (print), Edward Weston, Gelatin silver print, Bassenge Photography Auctions, LL/48020
Image: LL/48020
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Fritz Henle, 1941 (taken) 1992 (print), Edward Weston, Gelatin silver print, on RC paper, Bassenge Photography Auctions, LL/70646
Image: LL/70646
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Beatrice Ullrich-Zuckerman (1907-1987), 1942, Edward Weston Asleep on Point Lobos, [Great Photographers], Gelatin silver print, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive - BAMFA, LL/92082
Image: LL/92082
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Imogen Cunningham, 1945, Edward Weston with Cats 1945, Photograph, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, LL/103667
Image: LL/103667
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Imogen Cunningham, 1945 (taken) 1970s (print), Edward Weston, Photographer, with his Cats, Gelatin silver print, Howard Greenberg Gallery, LL/37930
Image: LL/37930
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Ansel Adams, 1945 (taken) 1974 (print), Edward Weston, Carmel Highlands, California, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58479
Image: LL/58479
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Lisette Model, 1946, Edward Weston, San Francisco, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, LL/63639
Image: LL/63639
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Unidentified photographer, 1946, Ed Weston & daughter-in-law at Carmel Highland, Black and white photograph, California State Library, LL/92083
Image: LL/92083
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Jack Lionel Nisberg, 1947, Edward Weston with Cat, Carmel, Gelatin silver print, Villa Grisebach Auktionen GmbH - Berlin, LL/94727
Image: LL/94727
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Ira Latour, 1950 (taken) 1999 (print), Edward Weston, Gelatin silver print, Carl Mautz Vintage Photographs, LL/25703
Image: LL/25703
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Nancy Newhall, 1950, August, Edward's house, Negative, gelatin on safety base sheet film, George Eastman Museum, LL/69945
Image: LL/69945
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Joe Schwartz, 1950s, Edward Weston and Paula Schwartz, at his home, Carmel, California, [Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written], Gelatin silver print, Provided by the artist - Joe Schwartz, LL/15057
Image: LL/15057
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Biography provided by Focal press
 
Renouncing his early commitment to a soft-focus pictorialism, Weston became one of the most influential advocates of straight photography in America. His images of the ARMCO Steelworks in Ohio, made in 1922, soon after meeting Steiglitz, Strand, and Sheeler, marked a radical shift toward a straight, unpretentious realism in photography. While in Mexico, where he lived for several years with photographer Tina Modotti (his assistant) and befriended artists of the Mexican Renaissance, Rivera, Siqueiros, and Orozco, his aesthetic matured. Upon returning to California in 1927, he began his remarkable close-up photographs of shells and vegetables, including the famous Pepper, No. 30. His studio in Carmel was the site of his lifelong project to photograph the cypress trees, rocks, and beaches of Point Lobos. Working with an 8 x 10 view camera, he made silver and platinum contact prints with exquisite attention to light and form, photographing natural forms, the landscape, and nudes, including a series of his second wife, Charis Wilson. In 1932 he was a founding member of the Group f/64, along with Adams, Van Dyke, Cunningham, and Noskowiak who were proponents of straight photography. The first photographer to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1937 and 1938, he produced California and the West (1940). Increasingly incapacitated by Parkinson's disease, Weston made his last photographs in 1948, and supervised the printing of his life's work by his sons, Brett and Cole.
 
(Author: GW)
 
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409] (Used with permission)
 
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