Bret E. Weston
American, 1911 - 1993
Brett Weston was born on December 16, 1911, in Los Angeles, California, the second son of Edward Weston. Brett [became] a photographer the day in Mexico when his father lent him a Graflex camera. That was in 1925, just before Brett celebrated his fourteenth birthday. He absorbed technique with remarkable speed and proficiency, and his youthful prints showed such individual seeing, such craftsmanship, and such quality that his father was proud to display a group of them along with his own photographs at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1927 and at the international exhibition, "Film und Foto" in Stuttgart, Germany, two years later.
For [over] sixty years, Brett photographed throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico, as well as in Europe and Japan. Since 1932, he has been honored with over one hundred exhibitions of his work. His photographs are found in museums and private collections throughout 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. Brett Weston died in Carmel, California, in 1993.
from Brett Weston: Voyage of the Eye, by Beaumont Newhall
"I have spoken all my life through the camera. Photographs are the statements and legacy that I have left. It is for each individual who encounters these images to read them as they will. My sincere hope is that this personal "voyage of the eye," as Nancy Newhall once termed it, has contributed to the visual language of the world."
-Brett Weston, 1989
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