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May 31, 2019 · Curating fine art collections since 1975! Edward Weston. (AMERICAN, 1886 - 1958) Edward Weston, an American photographer was born in Highland Park, Illinois. Weston began to make photographs in Chicago parks in 1902, and his works were first exhibited in 1903 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Some of his most famous photographs were taken of the trees and rocks at Point Lobos, California, near where he lived for many years. Weston was born in Chicago and moved to California when he was 21.
- He was given his first camera on his 16th birthday. Edward Weston was born in Highland Park, Illinois, in 1886. His father, an obstetrician, bought him his first camera (a Kodak Bulls-Eye No. 2) for his 16th birthday.
- He fell in love with California. Weston’s elder sister Mary had moved from the Midwest to the Los Angeles suburb of Tropico (present-day Glendale). On a visit to see her, he fell in love with California’s wide-open terrain, and when he was 20 he decided to move to Tropico himself.
- John Singer Sargent was an early influence. Weston opened a photography studio in Tropico in 1911, producing soft-focus portraits of well-to-do customers modelled on paintings by John Singer Sargent.
- Cubism offered escape from an artistic dead end. Portraiture allowed Weston to financially support his wife Flora and their four sons, but he found it an artistic dead end.
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His Daybooks, daily records of his life as a photographer, were published in the 1960s. Edward Weston was instrumental in establishing an identity for the West Coast school of photography in the early years of modernism in America.
Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was an American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography."
By creating photographs that transformed his subjects into abstractions of shapes and patterns, Weston helped bring the medium out of the Victorian age that favored pictorialist imitations of painting and into the modern era wherein photography became a celebrated medium in its own right.
- American
- March 24, 1886
- Highland Park, Illinois
- January 1, 1958
