Edward Weston

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The photography career of Edward Weston began when he received a Brownie camera in 1902 as a sixteenth birthday gift. Several of his favorite photo haunts were Chicago parks and his aunt’s farm where he found a wide variety of subjects to shoot. He always searched for images that could satisfy his out of the box style of imaging.

The Chicago Art Institute noticed Weston’s unique style after only one year of his experimentation with photography. At seventeen, he had his first photography show at the prestigious institute.

Photography had hooked the young man. He eventually moved to California to pursue his passion of photographing the natural form.

His study of objects such as plants, vegetables, seashells, landscapes, and the nude form were important works in establishing himself in the world of fine art imaging.

In 1932, he became a co-founder of the Group f64. The group consisted of himself and his contemporaries Imogene Cunningham, Ansel Adams, John Paul Edwards, Sonya Noskowiak, Willard Van Dyke, and Henry Swift.

The Group f64 became famous for the sharp depth of field they obtained by utilizing large format cameras set at f64 enabling them to make tack sharp 8’x10” contact prints.

Despite Weston's fame he survived by marketing his images for $7 to $10 per print; recently a Weston print fetched 1.6 million dollars.

A quote from the man considered the greatest photographer of the 20th Century. "Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it may be."