How Did Edward Weston Contribute To Photography

Edward Weston (1886-1958) born on March 24, 1886, in Highland Park, Illinois. At an early age Weston knew he wanted to be a photographer. Edward’s interest developed at the age of sixteen when his father gave him a Bull’s Eye #2 camera. He had taken his camera on a vacation with him to the midwest, and by the time he had returned home he had developed a passion for photography. In 1906 left Illinois to live near his sister in Tropico, California. It was in California that he decided he wanted to pursue a career in photography, however he soon realized that he lacked some knowledge/skills and soon after decided to enroll in Illinois College of Photography where he astonishingly finished a nine month course in only six months. Over the course of his 40-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still lifes, nudes, portraits and genre scenes. …show more content…
Having become lovers after she posed for him, they first travelled to Modotti's Mexico in 1923 and remained there for five years. In Mexico, Weston made a series of beautifully intimate nudes of Modotti, he also turned his camera on the everyday things around him it and it was on this trip to Mexico that inspired Weston to capture the photo “Nude 1936 (227N)”. Weston art style had developed into what is called straight photography. Straight photography refers to photography that attempts to depict a scene or subject in sharp focus and detail to make the commonplace unusual or foreign. He would take everyday objects and take focused and close up shots of