EdwardWeston


 * Edward Weston** (1886-1958) was an American photographer. He was born in Highland Park, Illinois. On his sixteenth birthday he received his first camera. He began to take photographs in the Chicago parks and at his aunt’s farmhouse. He became successful quickly and his photographs were already on display at the Chicago Art Institute in 1903. In 1906, he moved to California to pursuit his career. In 1911, he opened his first photography studio in Tropico, California. He would go to Mexico to take photographs. He took pictures of nudes, still life, and landscape subjects. He was given the Guggenheim fellowship award in 1937, which made him the first photographer to receive it. He then achieved the richest and most personal imagery of his career. He received exclusive commissions and published many books. In 1947, He produced some rare color photographs with Willard van Dyke. He has Parkinson’s disease and his last photographs were taken at Point Lobos, California in 1948. In 1952, he had a fifteenth-anniversary portfolio made of all of his most famous works. On January 1, 1958, Edward Weston died in his house on Wildcat Hill in Carmel, California.

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