Edward Weston
- Introduction
- Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers..." and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his 40-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still lives, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies. It is said that he developed a "quintessentially American, and especially 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 × 10 view camera. 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 knew he wanted to be a photographer from an early age, and initially his work was typical of the soft focus pictorialism that was popular at the time. Within a few years, however, he abandoned that style and went on to be one of the foremost champions of highly detailed photographic images. In 1947 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and he stopped photographing soon thereafter. He spent the remaining ten years of his life overseeing the printing of more than 1,000 of his most famous images.
- Wikidata
- Q346988
- Introduction
- Noted for innovative photographs of California, Mexico, portraits, industry, and abstract organic forms, including human figures, shells, and plants. Weston took his first photographs with a box camera in 1902. In 1906 he moved to California; was an itinerant portraitist. From 1908 to 1911. He traveled to Mexico, New York City, and Ohio, where he made his first industrial photographs. Weston worked for a commercial portrait studio in Los Angeles, in his own studio in Tropico (now Glendale) California, in Mexico City with Tina Modotti, with his son Brett in San Francisco, in Carmel, California, and in Santa Monica, California. Weston was a co-founder of the Group f/64 in 1932. American photographer.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Photographer, Owner
- Names
- Edward Weston, Edward Henry Weston
- Ulan
- 500003372
Exhibitions
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510: A Modern Media World
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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520: Picturing America
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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510: Machines, Mannequins, and Monsters
Oct 21, 2019–Sep 7, 2020
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection,
1909–1949 Dec 13, 2014–Apr 19, 2015
MoMA
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A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio
Feb 8–Nov 2, 2014
MoMA
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Edward Weston has
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Edward Weston Violet Romer c. 1917
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Edward Weston Photographs of Violet Romer 1917-1918
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Edward Weston The Spirit of the Dance c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer. (reaching for tall reed, wearing fairy costume) c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer. (standing on porch, lifting veil) c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer. (standing between tree and column with peacock fan) c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer. (standing by balustrade with raised arm) c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer. (in hoop skirt by white gate) c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer. (in hoop skirt admiring rose) c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer. (with peacock fan) c. 1917
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Edward Weston Violet Romer. (on stairs, hand on banister) c. 1917
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Edward Weston The White Peacock c. 1917
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Edward Weston, Margrethe Mather Carl Sandburg 1921
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Edward Weston, Margrethe Mather Max Eastman 1921
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Edward Weston, Margrethe Mather Max Eastman 1921
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Edward Weston Attic 1921
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Edward Weston Armco Steel, Ohio 1922
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Edward Weston Refracted Sunlight on Torso 1922
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Edward Weston Steel: Armco, Middletown, Ohio October 1922
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Edward Weston Guadalupe Marín de Rivera, Mexico 1923
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Edward Weston Nahui Olín 1923
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Edward Weston La Ciudadela, Teotihaucán 1923
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Edward Weston Manuel Hernández Galván, Shooting 1924
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Edward Weston Diego Rivera 1924
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Edward Weston Rafael Sala 1924
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Edward Weston Rafael Sala 1924
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Edward Weston Plaza, Tepotzotlán 1924
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Edward Weston Tina Modotti 1924
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Edward Weston Pirámide de Cuernavaca 1924
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Edward Weston Tina 1924
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Edward Weston Tina January 30, 1924
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Edward Weston Cloud, Mexico July 1924
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Edward Weston Nude, Mexico 1925
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Edward Weston Plaster Works, Los Angeles 1925
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Edward Weston Torso of Neil 1925
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Edward Weston Ready-Cut Homes, Inc 1925
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Edward Weston Neil Asleep 1925
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