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Definition: Weston, Edward from Philip's Encyclopedia

US photographer. He developed his style in the 1920s, influenced by Alfred Stieglitz. His aim was to give new meaning to mundane objects.


Weston, Edward

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
1886-1958 US photographer Born in Highland Park, Illinois, he established his own studio in Glendale, California (c.1910), moving to Mexico in 1923. He rebelled against the prevalent "soft-focus" style and became recognized as a modernist, emphasizing sharp images and precise definition in landscapes, portraits and still life. In 1932 he joined Ansel Adams and others in forming the "straight photography' purists" Group f/64, in California. His close-up studies of inanimate objects such as shells and vegetables exemplified his vision of detailed form and the richness of his control of tone. He produced notable landscapes of the Mohave Desert and in 1937, with the first-ever award of a Guggenheim Fellowship to a photographer, travelled widely throughout the western states of the USA. He followed this with a long tour of the southern and eastern states to illustrate an edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass . …
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Edward Weston at Point Lobos, 1945, photograph by...
(born March 24, 1886, Highland Park, Ill., U.S.—died Jan. 1, 1958, Carmel, Calif.) U.S. photographer. A camera enthusiast from boyhood, Weston began his professional career by opening a portrait studio in Glendale, Calif. His early work was in the style of the Pictorialists, photographers who…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
1886–1958, American photographer, b. Highland Park, Ill. Weston began to make photographs in Chicago parks in 1902, and his works were first exhibited in 1903 at the Art Institute of Chicago. Three years later he moved to California and opened a portrait studio in a Los Angeles suburb. The Western…
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Full text Article Weston, Edward

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
1886-1958 US photographer Born in Highland Park, Illinois, he established his own studio in Glendale, California (c.1910), moving to Mexico in 1923. He rebelled against the prevalent "soft-focus" style and became recognized as a modernist, emphasizing sharp images and precise definition in…
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BERTRAM STANLEY MITFORD BOWYER , KBE, PC, 2nd Baron, 10th Baronet of Denham, and 2nd Baronet of Weston Underwood; b 3 Oct 1927; s to the Barony and Baronetcy of Bowyer of Weston Underwood ( cr 1933) 1948, and to the Baronetcy of Bowyer of Denham ( cr 1660) 1950; ed Eton, and King's Coll, Camb; a…
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Rev JOHN CYRIL EDMONDSON , DSC, 2nd Baron; b 22 Dec 1920; s 1959; ed Eton; Cdr RN (ret); 1939–45 War with Eastern Med Fleet, Allied Landings in N Africa, Sicily and Normandy (DSC); on Staff of C-in-C Far East 1951–53, and Cdr Home Fleet Flagship 1955–56; Curate of St Nicholas, Harpenden, 1958–63; …
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Sir BRUCE GORDON CHAYTOR , 9th Baronet; b 31 July 1949, son of late Herbert Gordon Chaytor, only son of late Herbert Archibald Chaytor, 2nd son of late Reginald Clervaux Chaytor, yst son of 2nd baronet; s his kinsman, Sir GEORGE REGINALD , 1999, but no name has been entered on the Official Roll of…
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SIMON DOUGLAS-PENNANT , 7th Baron; b 28 June 1938; s 2003; ed Eton, and Clare Coll, Camb (BA); Dir Brintons Ltd Kidderminster 1990–98: m 1963, Josephine Maxwell, yr da of late Robert Upcott, and of Mrs David Maurice Annett, of Worcester, and has issue. Arms — Quarterly: 1st and 4th per bend sinister…
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GEORGE FREDERICK LAURENCE HYDE VILLIERS , 7th Earl; b 2 Feb 1933; s 1955; ed Eton, and Madrid Univ; Page of Honour to HM King George VI 1948–49; Managing Dir of Seccombe, Marshall and Campion plc 1962–93 (and Chm 1985–93); Prime Warden Fishmongers' Co 1999–2000; Lt RHG 1951- 53: m 1974, Jane Diana, …
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JAMES WILLIAM FALCONER KEITH , 14th Earl, and 5th Baronet; b 15 April 1976; s 2004; ed Gordonstoun: m 2006, Carrie Fiona, da of Ian Paxton, of 1 Milton Crescent, Edinburgh. Arms — Quarterly; 1st and 4th, argent on a chief, gules three pallets or, Keith ; 2nd, azure, a falcon displayed between three…
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BEATRICE MARY GRENVILLE FREEMAN-GRENVILLE ( Lady Kinloss ), b 1922; s 1944; assumption with her husband of the surname of Freeman-Grenville recognised by decree of Lord Lyon King of Arms 1950; FRAS 1997: m 1950, Greville Stewart Parker Freeman, DPhil, MA, BLitt (Oxon), FSA, FRAS, who d 2005, Capt…
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