EDWARD WESTON
1886-1958

EDWARD WESTON

One of the most celebrated photographers of the twentieth century, Edward Weston is most famous for his photographs of the later 1920s and 1930s, above all for his still lives of peppers and shells and his landscapes of the sand dunes of Oceano.

1886
Born in Highland Park, Illinois
1908
Studied at the Illinois College of Photography
1958
Died in Carmel, CA


Selected Exhibitions:

2009
Edward Weston: Life Work, Akron Art Musuem, Akron, Ohio
Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contemporaries, MFA Boston, Boston, MA

2008
Edward Weston: Mexico, Pheonix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

2007
Edward Weston: Enduring Vision, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Mexico as Muse: Tina Modotti and Edward Weston, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA

1956
The World of Edward Weston, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

1946
Major Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York


Literature:

1966
The Daybooks of Edward Weston, vol. II

1962
The Daybooks of Edward Weston, vol. I

1952
50th Anniversary Portfolio

1950
My Camera on Point Lobos, Edward Weston

1941
Special Edition of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

1940
California and the West by C. W. Weston