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Henry Edward Weston and Edward Weston was one of the most famous and influential photographers of the twentieth century. Born March 24, 1886, in Highland Park Illinois. The sixteenth anniversary Edward, his father gave him his first camera. This was the beginning of the love story with a picture of Weston.
As a beginner, started making click the pictures in the parks of Chicago and her aunt's farm. In 1903 he exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. Weston moved to California in 1906 to pursue a career in photography. She began working as a door to door portrait photographer. For formal training, he returned to Illinois in 1909 and attended the University of Illinois in the photograph. The same year he married Flora May Chandler with whom he had four children. Weston, opened her store in 1911 in Tropico, California, where he worked until 1922. It was a great success with its "pictorial style of photography and has won several awards and trade show. Eduardo has also written several articles on the methods unconventional portraits for various magazines such as American Photography, Photo Era and Photo-miniature.
An exhibition on Modern Art in San Francisco World Fair, In 1915, greatly influenced Weston. He stirred with "Pictorialism" and said it was a mechanic in the styles of painting. He began experimenting with light, shadows and soft focus. After meeting with Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand, who is also convinced that photographs must register the true essence of the object, living or dead, alive or not alive. On a visit to Ohio, in 1922, click a few photos of the Armco Steel Plant. These photos show his inclination to "straight photography" Pictorialism 'a', 'including the emergence of a style of sharp focus.
Anita Book Brenner "idols behind altars" published some of his photos clicked during his brief stay in Mexico in 1923, with training and romantic Modette Tina, who later even posed nude for him. These files, such as "Tina recitation and apologized," has demonstrated its clear transition in "Straight Photography". In 1927, he made a monumental series of explosions near where he is best known. Their topics range from items such as seafood, vegetables (peppers and cut into two cabbages), landscapes and nudes. Weston skillfully created sharp images with a large format camera with a small opening, the catch real beauty of the subject. The photographer, along with his son Brett, has opened a new studio in San Francisco in 1928. Edward Weston became co-founder of Group f/64 "purist Photographers "as Ansel Adams and Willard Van Dyke in 1932.
It was also the first recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in photography in 1937. In 1938, he married photographer with his assistant, Charis Wilson, with whom he has lived since 1934. In 1941, Weston provided illustrations for an edition of "Leaves of Grass Whitman. His work began to shame, having been beaten with Parkinson's disease in 1946. The same year, he and Chris were divorced. He took his last photographs at Point Wolves in 1948. In 1952, the fiftieth anniversary of the book was published with his images printed by his son Brett. Edward Weston died in Caramel, California, January 01, 1958.
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