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Brett Weston’s straight shot photography is marked by a strength of form. Whether it was an abstract airplane wing or water droplets inches away from his camera, his images seize exhilarating patterns in the natural and man-made world. No photographer in the history of the medium has been as involved with the natural landscape over as long a period as Brett Weston. From the earliest examples of his photography, beginning in the mid-1920s, and ending with the last photographs he made in 1993, it is evident that Brett Weston’s vision was unique and consistent.
Brett Weston was born December 16, 1911, in Los Angeles, California, the second son of Edward and Flora Weston. He began to photograph at the age of twelve in Mexico, where he lived with his father. During his life, he photographed throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as in Europe and Japan. He was honored with over one hundred exhibitions of his work. His photographs are found in museums and private collections all over the world. In 1947 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 1973 a grant from The National Endowment for the Humanities to photograph in Alaska. From 1978 to the end of his life in 1993, Weston spent much of his time in Hawaii where he explored unlimited photographic possibilities. Today, his photographs continue to encompass the infinite discoveries of artistic explorations.
Throughout his 60 year career, Weston challenged the boundaries of black and white photography through experimentation with abstraction and recognizable subject matter. In the foreword to Weston’s famous “White Sands” portfolio, Nancy Newhall writes, “Instead of abstract sculpture, he saw a magic play of light: grasses, ghostly in their winter death, shadowing the massive, luminous dunes with silver, the spikes and bells of yucca black as jet against them. He saw the delicate aerial structure of eerie plants reaching into the skies, the dunes grey with storm or gleaming with snow against dark distant mountains – endless absorbing variations!”
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The Oklahoman, Sep 7, 2008
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