Photography by Brett Weston at the Currier Museum of Art Nov 8, 2009
Brett Weston (1911-93) was the son of Edward Weston, one of the great photographers of the 20th century. The younger Weston was very good, but not that good. (Boston Globe)
November at the Center for Creative Photography Oct 30, 2009
Prints by some of the greatest portraitists and photographic image-makers of the 19th, 20th, and 21st century are included: Southworth and Hawes, Gertrude Kasebier, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, W. Eugene Smith, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Yousuf Karsh and Richard Avedon. Photo News. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Critic's picks - visual arts Oct 25, 2009
BRETT WESTON: OUT OF THE SHADOW More than 100 black-and-white photographs taken over the course of 60 years by the accomplished second son of Edward Weston. Through Jan. 3. (Boston Globe)
Through the lens of time Sep 22, 2009
Some of the pictures, by Bourke-White, Edward Weston, and Dorothea Lange, hung in Polaroid founder Edwin Land s library. Sotheby s has chosen 1,300 prints from the collection, valued between $7 million and $11 million, and plans to auction them off next spring. (Boston Globe)
'Viva Mexico!' shows how Edward Weston was transformed Jun 5, 2009
shows how Edward Weston was transformed - The Boston Globe ... Edward Weston's ''Galvan Shooting'' is on view in ''Viva Mexico ... Maybe the best way to understand "Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contemporaries" is as three interlocking hinges. (Boston Globe)
'Vida y Drama' works retain their feel of mass impact Jun 5, 2009
It consists of around two dozen works taken from the museum's collection, and it opens in concert with "Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contemporaries" in a neighboring gallery set aside for photography. In the battle to win hearts and minds after the 1910 Mexican Revolution, artists in that country had two options. (Boston Globe)
Saturday's TV: New Tricks May 28, 2009
For those who don't know, Edward Weston is a legend in American photography. A pioneer of the Modernist style of the art form, he is revered in his homeland for his poetic development of the new genre of sharply-focused, unmanipulated images. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Exhibits show off Mexico's picturesque side May 17, 2009
The first, called "Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contemporaries," will focus on three years in the career of one of America's great pioneers of modernist photography. Mexico comes into it because it was there that Edward Weston became truly modern. (Boston Globe)
Pirkle Jones; photographer depicted migrants, activists Mar 27, 2009
From 1947 to 1953, he worked as an assistant and printmaker to Adams, who brought him into an artistic circle that included Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, and Minor White. He also met and married Ruth-Marion Baruch, a fellow photography student and poet, who became a lifelong collaborator. (Boston Globe)
Grammy and Golden Globe Award Winner Kitaro Provides the Original Motion Picture CD Soundtrack for Toyo's Camera - The Riveting Film About Japanese Internment During WWII Makes Its U.S. Premiere in Los Angeles Today (March 6) Mar 7, 2009
LOS ANGELES, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- What stories do distinguished photographers Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and Toyo Miyatake's photographs tell in this motion picture ... Toyo's Camera is a collaboration of world-renowned artists including Photographers: Toyo Miyatake, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston; Musicians: Kitaro, Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park); and Film Director: Junichi Suzuki ... The works of Toyo's mentors and companions, 20th century's famed photographers Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, are... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Escondido exhibit documents 20th century in photographs Feb 12, 2009
The Escondido art center's museum decided to host the company's photography collection, which encompasses everything from the still lifes and landscapes of Edward Weston to the humorous and enlightening images of New York streets by Weegee (pseudonym of photographer Arthur Fellig). Other famous photographers featured in the exhibit include Dorothea Lange, Ervin Marton, Inge Morath, William Clift, Mario Algaze and Jack Spencer. (North County Times)
