Untitled (Leaves, Hawaii)
Artist:
Brett Weston
(American, 1911-1993)
Date: c. 1985
Medium: Gelatin silver print, vintage
Dimensions:
11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Credit Line: Gift from the Christian Keesee Collection
Object number: 2017.24.35
Copyright: © The Brett Weston Archive
Provenance: Brett Weston Archive
Label Text
“It seems to me, that this powerful duality, this combination of the abstract, in the emphasis upon form, and the sense of presence, in the rendering of light and substance, is something only photography can do.”—Brett Weston
A leading figure of twentieth-century American photography, Brett Weston created a body of work that displays exceptional vision and technical skill. He began exploring the camera at the early age of thirteen, apprenticing with his father, the renowned modernist photographer Edward Weston, during an extended trip to Mexico in 1925. Along with Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, the elder Weston, and others, Brett Weston was a founding member of Group f/64, a coalition of photographers in the San Francisco Bay Area who promoted straight photography—highly detailed and precise images that exploit the camera’s technical potential. Exemplary of this approach, Weston’s work is characterized by high contrast tones, an emphasis on form (often found in the natural world), and a virtuosic reliance on the innate capabilities of the camera, lens, film, and paper.
(Lana Meador, 2020)
A leading figure of twentieth-century American photography, Brett Weston created a body of work that displays exceptional vision and technical skill. He began exploring the camera at the early age of thirteen, apprenticing with his father, the renowned modernist photographer Edward Weston, during an extended trip to Mexico in 1925. Along with Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, the elder Weston, and others, Brett Weston was a founding member of Group f/64, a coalition of photographers in the San Francisco Bay Area who promoted straight photography—highly detailed and precise images that exploit the camera’s technical potential. Exemplary of this approach, Weston’s work is characterized by high contrast tones, an emphasis on form (often found in the natural world), and a virtuosic reliance on the innate capabilities of the camera, lens, film, and paper.
(Lana Meador, 2020)
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