Edward Henry Weston
Edward Henry Weston
19th-20th century American photographer
(Highland Park, Illinois, 3/24/1886 - 1/1/1958, Carmel, California)
Note: Noted for innovative photographs of California, Mexico, portraits, industry, and abstract organic forms, including human figures, shells, and plants. Weston took his first photographs with a box camera in 1902. In 1906 he moved to California; was an itinerant portraitist. From 1908 to 1911. He traveled to Mexico, New York City, and Ohio, where he made his first industrial photographs. Weston worked for a commercial portrait studio in Los Angeles, in his own studio in Tropico (now Glendale) California, in Mexico City with Tina Modotti, with his son Brett in San Francisco, in Carmel, California, and in Santa Monica, California. Weston was a co-founder of the Group f/64 in 1932. American photographer.
14 objects
1925
gelatin silver print
Gift of David P. Becker, Class of 1970
1971.43.1
1926
gelatin silver print
Gift of David P. Becker, Class of 1970
1971.43.2
1926
gelatin silver print
Gift of David P. Becker, Class of 1970
1971.43.3
1927
gelatin silver print
Gift of David P. Becker, Class of 1970
1971.43.4
1929
gelatin silver print
Gift of David P. Becker, Class of 1970
1971.43.5
1930 (printed 1971)
gelatin silver print
Gift of David P. Becker, Class of 1970
1971.43.6
1934
gelatin silver print
Gift of David P. Becker, Class of 1970
1971.43.7
1937
gelatin silver print
Gift of David P. Becker, Class of 1970
1971.43.8
1946
gelatin silver print
Gift of David P. Becker, Class of 1970
1971.43.9
1948
dye transfer print
Gift of David P. Becker, Class of 1970
1971.43.10
1933
gelatin silver print
Gift of Isaac Lagnado, Class of 1971
1986.94.26
1925-1930 (printed)
gelatin silver print
Museum Purchase
1988.39
ca. 1933
silver print
Museum Purchase, Gridley W. Tarbell II Fund
2004.14.2
1937
vintage gelatin silver print on paper
Gift of Bill and Mary Earl Rogers
2019.45