Edward Weston
In 1886 Edward H. Weston was born in Highland Park Illinois and then was raised in Chicago. He went to The Oakland Grammar School and at 16 years of age he received his first camera form his father. In his spare time he took pictures in Chicago parks as well as his aunts farm. he worked as an errand boy and a salesman for Marshall field and company. In 1906 he went to California where he held down two jobs. One was a door to door portrait photographer and the other was a surveyor .From 1908 to 1911 he went to the Illinois College of Photography and spent his summers back in California working as a printer in photographic studios. While spending his summer in California he became the founder of the camera pictorialists of LA. 1909 Weston married Flora Chandler. In 1910 they had their first son Edward C.Weston. 1911 their second son was born, Theodore B. Weston.
In 1940 he had illustrations for transcendentalist Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass. Many people loved these pictures because they showed the basic human life. Andlast but not least the fourth Cole Weston in 1919. 1948 was when Willard Van Dyke made a film about him called The Photographer. Over the next 10 years he became more and more ill and left the printing up to two of his sons, Brett and Cole. 1932 he became the founding member of the f64 group of purists photographers along with a few other well-known photographers. In 1926 he went back to California. There he began to take pictures of nudes, close ups, landscapes, and natural forms. He took nude pictures of Tina for a long time. During that year his first book was published. During that year a book was published called The Art of Edward Weston. He choose the name f64 because he set his lense to that aperture to securemaximum image sharpness. Weston later wrote, "the camera should be used for recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel of palpitating flesh. He was the first recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship if photography in 1937.
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