Edward weston brief biography of siren

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1947, diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Paul Getty Museum)

Most Expensive Photograph by Edward Weston

In April 2008, Weston's Nude (1925) was auctioned for $1,609,000, at Sotheby's New York, making it the most expensive Weston photograph ever sold. Later, in 1941 using photographs of the East and South, Weston provided illustrations for a new edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.

Edward Weston has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." In 1947 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and he stopped photographing soon thereafter.

Still lifes, portraits, nude studies, and studies of shells and plants are the best-known works of his long since considered "classical" oeuvre. Long since one of the art market's highest valued American photographers.

For a brief discussion of the aesthetics and evolution of lens-based art, see: Is Photography Art?

Selected Exhibitions

Unless stated all shows are solo events.

1929 Stuttgart (Film und Foto) group show
1930 New York (Delpic Studios)
1932 San Francisco (M.

Facing Seaside III, The Weston Collective, 2024. An exhibition featuring the artists in the Weston Collective’s Fall 2023 Community Darkroom Class. 1929, through Richard Neutra's recommendation selected as American contribution to the exhibition Film und Foto in Stuttgart. At the same time creates expressive art photography founded on Pictorialism.

1937, first photographer to receive a Guggenheim fellowship. At the same time takes photos of nude studies and steadily growing number of floral forms, shells, and rock formations. May 2, 2024 - August 14, 2024. February 19, 2023 - March 1, 2023. Returns to California. 1946, major retrospective at MoMA, New York. Weston became successful working in soft-focus, pictorial style, winning many salons and professional awards.

An exhibition highlighting Martin Luther King Jr. School of the Arts students who are in The Weston Collective’s After School Photography Program.

The 2024 Weston Collective Scholarship Exhibition, The Weston Collective Studio in Seaside, 2024. Many of his most famous photographs were taken of the scenery near his home at Point Lobos, California.

This would be his base of operation for the next two decades.