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Edward Weston was educated at the Illinois College of Photography. He moved
to Los Angeles,
where he worked as a printer, before opening his own studio in 1911. In
1922, he traveled to New York,
where he met Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Charles Scheeler. In
1923, he moved to Mexico
with his eldest son Chandler
and photographer Tina Modotti. In Mexico he opened a studio with Tina
Modotti, and began to work on a new range of subject matter. In December
of 1924 Weston left Mexico
to return to California.
We worked briefly in San Francisco before
returning to Mexico,
where he rejoined Tina Modotti.
It was during this stay in Mexico that Weston's work took on a
new direction and that he matured as an artist.
In 1926, he returned to the United States. Two years
later he was to open a photographic studio in San Francisco with his son Brett. In
1929, he and Brett moved their studio to Carmel.
In 1932 he joined the Group f/64. In 1948, he was afflicted with
Parkinson's disease, and was unable to use camera or darkroom. Weston
died on January 1, 1958, at his home in Carmel,
California.
excerpt from:
Through Foreign Eyes, Editors; Carole Naggar and Fred
Ritchin, W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. p 305.
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