Nude Floating, 1939
Description
This gelatin-silver print is printed, stamped, and signed by Cole Weston, son of Edward, and is accompanied by a hardcover copy of "Edward Weston: Portraits".
Edward Weston was born March 24, 1886, in Highland Park, Illinois. He made his first photographs in 1902 with a Kodak Bull's Eye # 2 camera—a gift from his father. In 1911, five years after moving to California, he opened his own portrait studio in Tropico (now Glendale), California, and began to earn an international reputation for his work. But it was not until 1922 that he came fully into his own as an artist, with his photographs of the Armco steel mill in Ohio. From 1923 to 1926, he worked in Mexico and in California, where he lived with his sons, Chandler, Brett, Neil, and Cole. Though he continued to support himself with portrait work, Weston turned increasingly to subjects of his own choosing, such as nudes, clouds, and close-ups of rocks, trees, vegetables, and shells. During 1937–39, on a Guggenheim Fellowship, he traveled and photographed throughout the American West. Three years later, he toured the South and East, taking photographs for a limited edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass, until the attack on Pearl Harbor cut short his journey. In 1948 Weston made his last photograph; he had been stricken with Parkinson's disease several years earlier. Thereafter, he supervised the printing of his best work by two of his sons, Brett and Cole, and Dody Warren. On January 1, 1958, he died at Wildcat Hill, his home in Carmel, California.
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