Edward Henry Weston
photographer
Edward Weston (1886-1958) was an American photographer born in Highland Park, Illinois, who died at his home, Wildcat Hill, in Carmel, California, after suffering from Parkinson's disease. He is regarded as a leading figure in the move from soft-focus Pictorialism to sharply focused modernist photography. He lived and worked in Mexico from 1923 to 1927. He is best known for his sharply detailed close-ups of natural forms, including his 1929-33 studies of vegetables isolated against dark backgrounds, as well as landscapes such as the Point Lobos pines and the Oceano dunes, and austere nudes. In 1932 he was a co-founder of Group f/64. In 1937 he received the first Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to a photographer. The Smithsonian Institution showed 100 of the works he considered his best in the exhibition The World of Edward Weston after his death. His archive is held at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona.[1,2,3]
- modernist photography
- nudes
- natural forms and still life
- landscape (Point Lobos, Oceano dunes)
- Group f/64
Works about Edward Henry Weston
- 2001 Edward Weston 1886-1958 Taschen Icons series; edited by Manfred Heiting, with an essay by Terence Pitts; about 180 images.
Exhibitions
- 1958 The World of Edward Weston
Awards
- 1937 Guggenheim Fellowship (first awarded to a photographer)