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Essay on Edward Weston's Daybooks
Edward Weston born on March 24, 1886 was an American photographer, and co-founder of Group f/64. Most of his work was done using an 8 by 10 inch view camera. Edward Weston was born in Highland Park, Illinois on March 24, 1886. In 1902, he received his first camera for his sixteenth birthday, a Kodak Bull's-Eye #2, and began taking photographs in parks in Chicago and at his aunt's farm. The young Weston met with quick success, and his photographs were already being exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute merely a year later, in 1903. In 1906, Weston moved to California, where he ultimately decided to stay and pursue a career as a photographer. He married his first wife, Flora May Chandler, in 1909, and she bore him four sons: Chandler (1910), Brett (1911), Neil (1914) and Cole (1919). In 1911, Weston opened his first photographic studio in Tropico, California now Glendale and wrote articles about his unconventional methods of portraiture for several high-circulation magazines.
1922 marked a period of transition for Weston. Renouncing pictorials in favor of straight photography, he began regular visits to Mexico with his professional and romantic partner, Tina Modotti, whose relationship with Weston was the cause of much gossip in the media. They were often accompanied by one of Weston's sons, who received a sound instruction in photography. Brett and Cole later embarked on their own, successful careers in this field. After 1927, Weston worked mainly with nudes, still life his shells and vegetable studies were especially important and landscape subjects. After a few exhibitions of his works in New York, he went on to found Group f/64 in 1932 with fellow photographers Ansel Adams, Willard van Dyke and others. The term f/64 referred to the smallest aperture setting on a large format camera....
