Edward Weston is known as one of the many great photographers in history. He was born on March 24th 1886 in Highland Park, Illinois and passed away January 1st 1958. Edward
Weston had a great love for photography which began when he was only 16 after receiving his first camera as a gift from his father. This first camera was a Kodak box camera, bull’s eye #2.
Weston would spend many hours at local parks in Illinois, mainly Chicago. He also spent many days at this aunt’s farm photographing whatever he could. These locations were the source of the first work’s of Edward Weston. After four years of shooting in these areas Weston was published in the magazine, Camera and Darkroom for his photograph Spring (Henderson). He then moved to California …show more content…
When this didn’t prove to be as successful as he hoped, he went back to Illinois and studied photography in
Effingham. After he completed his training he went back to California where he met his first wife, had four children and worked as a photographer for a few different companies. In 1911 he had the opportunity to open his own photography studio in Tropico California. During this period in his career he won many tittles and received recognition for his pictorial style and international recognition for his high key portraits and was published in many different publications
(biography). In 1912 Weston met Margrethe Mather who was to become what he called “the first important woman in my life” (biography). Mather became his studio assistant and one of the most used models for his portraits in the years to come.
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Edward Weston
In 1922 Weston had a revelation when he went to Ohio. There he visited his sister and stumbled upon the American Rolling Mill Company or ARMCO. These images are known to be some of his most important work. It is when he began shooting in an industrial atmosphere that he realized that his photos should be true to reality, have sharp lines with high resolution. …show more content…
I can identify with his technique and work because by sing just a simple vegetable he was able to create a work of art that emits beauty. Weston’s determination and tenacity is one to be applauded.
Weston states “It is a classic, completely satisfying, ‒ a pepper ‒ but more than a pepper; abstract, in that it is completely outside subject matter. It has no psychological attributes, no human emotions are aroused: this new pepper takes one beyond the world we know in the conscious mind” (2017).
The image below is one of his more famous works, Dunes, 1936. You can see by the intricacy and fine lines, the painstaking time it must have taken to get this shot. The different textures captured are complimentary to the image as a whole.
To further explain his methodology and thinking Weston was quoted as saying, “To clearly express my feeling for life with photographic beauty, present objectively the texture, rhythm, form in nature without subterfuge or evasion in technique or spirit, to record the quintessence of the object or element before my lens, rather than an interpretation, a superficial phase, or
Weston had a great love for photography which began when he was only 16 after receiving his first camera as a gift from his father. This first camera was a Kodak box camera, bull’s eye #2.
Weston would spend many hours at local parks in Illinois, mainly Chicago. He also spent many days at this aunt’s farm photographing whatever he could. These locations were the source of the first work’s of Edward Weston. After four years of shooting in these areas Weston was published in the magazine, Camera and Darkroom for his photograph Spring (Henderson). He then moved to California …show more content…
When this didn’t prove to be as successful as he hoped, he went back to Illinois and studied photography in
Effingham. After he completed his training he went back to California where he met his first wife, had four children and worked as a photographer for a few different companies. In 1911 he had the opportunity to open his own photography studio in Tropico California. During this period in his career he won many tittles and received recognition for his pictorial style and international recognition for his high key portraits and was published in many different publications
(biography). In 1912 Weston met Margrethe Mather who was to become what he called “the first important woman in my life” (biography). Mather became his studio assistant and one of the most used models for his portraits in the years to come.
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Edward Weston
In 1922 Weston had a revelation when he went to Ohio. There he visited his sister and stumbled upon the American Rolling Mill Company or ARMCO. These images are known to be some of his most important work. It is when he began shooting in an industrial atmosphere that he realized that his photos should be true to reality, have sharp lines with high resolution. …show more content…
I can identify with his technique and work because by sing just a simple vegetable he was able to create a work of art that emits beauty. Weston’s determination and tenacity is one to be applauded.
Weston states “It is a classic, completely satisfying, ‒ a pepper ‒ but more than a pepper; abstract, in that it is completely outside subject matter. It has no psychological attributes, no human emotions are aroused: this new pepper takes one beyond the world we know in the conscious mind” (2017).
The image below is one of his more famous works, Dunes, 1936. You can see by the intricacy and fine lines, the painstaking time it must have taken to get this shot. The different textures captured are complimentary to the image as a whole.
To further explain his methodology and thinking Weston was quoted as saying, “To clearly express my feeling for life with photographic beauty, present objectively the texture, rhythm, form in nature without subterfuge or evasion in technique or spirit, to record the quintessence of the object or element before my lens, rather than an interpretation, a superficial phase, or