'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)
Image could point to earlier dawn of photography Mar 28, 2008
A 1936 photograph by Edward Weston titled "Dunes, Oceano." The photograph will be among the highlights of a photography auction at Sotheby's spanning from early daguerreotypes to iconic 20th century images. Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. (USA Today -- Tech)
April photo auction to include rare Weston, daguerreotypes to classic images Mar 20, 2008
NEW YORK A rare photograph by Edward Weston, once owned by Ansel Adams, will be among the highlights of a photography auction spanning from early daguerreotypes to iconic 20th century images. The April 8 sale at Sotheby's New York also includes a copy of Man Ray's Champs Delicieux, a volume of 12 gelatin silver prints of the artist's earliest Rayographs, a process in which a three-dimensional object is placed on photographic paper and exposed to light. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
Auction of iconic photos to fetch millions Mar 15, 2008
Also that day, the auction house will offer a range of 20th-century photographs by such artists as Edward Weston, Irving Penn, Dorthea Lange and Robert Mapplethorpe. Two Penn masterpieces are expected to bring up to $300,000 and $350,000, respectively. (MSNBC -- News)
Wyandotte Camera Club celebrates 70th anniversary Mar 3, 2008
Famous American photographer Edward Weston summed up the argument best in a 1978 book. The prejudice many photographers have against color photography comes from not thinking of color as form, Weston wrote. (Kansas City Kansan, KS)
A love affair with the face Feb 18, 2008
How forcefully, how confidently, classic American photographer Imogen Cunningham confronts the lens of her famous colleague, Edward Weston, her massive steel wristwatch conveying something of her solid, meaningful presence in what was then a pretty relentlessly male discipline. Sometimes, the mask-like quality of the subject's face has been made palpable - perhaps as a deliberate collaboration between photographer and subject. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Iconic Edward Weston photos to be auctioned Feb 7, 2008
Iconic photographer Edward Weston's work to be auctioned - CNN.com ... NEW YORK (AP) -- More than 40 photographs owned by the descendants of Edward Weston will go on the auction block in April, where they are expected to fetch up to $1 ... Edward Weston's 1936 "Charis on the Dunes" is expected to auction for $100,000 to $150,000. (CNN -- US)
Paris Photo 2007 during the transportation strikes Dec 2, 2007
Modernist vintage prints of series by Edward Weston were sold by Silverstein for $272,000 during the fair, while Edwynn Houk sold a collage by Man Ray for 28,650 euros. From Nov. 15 to 19, 104 galleries and 17 publishers and rare book dealers displayed their treasures. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Man gone west Nov 6, 2007
They revisited sites where early survey and landscape photographers Ansel Adams, Edweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins and Edward Weston had done work. Klett and Wolfe then used co-ordinates to replicate the exact viewpoints of the earlier photographers. (University News, MO)
Leonard Vernon, 89; built an extensive photo collection Oct 30, 2007
He described the collection as heavy in Western photography with images by Ansel Adams and Edward Weston and noted that many photographs on display at the Getty in an exhibition of Weston's work are from the Vernon collection ... " Vernon's world began in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Aug. 3, 1918. As a teenager, he served as a sitter for Marjorie, also a Brooklyn native, and her brother, but she did not play a major part in his life until years later. He graduated from City College of New York with a... (Los Angeles Times)
Museum a real attraction: Upgraded facility drawing acquisitions Oct 29, 2007
China Cove, Point Lobos, a photograph by Edward Weston, one of the most influential American photographers of the 20th century. A vintage print of a reclining nude framed in a box by German-born photographer Ruth Bernhard. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Announces a New President and a New Museum Director Oct 19, 2007
Acclaimed exhibitions organized under his leadership ranged from contemporary artists Andy Warhol and Faith Ringgold to photographer Edward Weston, French and American Barbizon and Impressionist paintings, and propaganda textiles from World War II-era Japan, England, and the United States. Brigham earned his master's degree in Museum Studies/American Civilization and doctorate in American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania, and bachelor's degrees in English and Accounting summa cum... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Space artist gives UA 200 works Oct 6, 2007
The research center retains the archives of more than 50 photographers, including Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. The museum of art archive will be only one of a handful in the country, said John Brown, spokesman for the University of Arizona Foundation, the university's fund-raising arm. (AZCentral -- News)
MoPA spreads its wings Sep 3, 2007
4, 2009): She wrote early commentary on Ansel Adams and Edward Weston and left behind a broad body of pioneering writing about photography as well as making pictures herself. This show presents her as an under-recognized figure in the history of the medium. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Focus on Women Aug 8, 2007
The international masters Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bert Stern, Bill Brandt and Edward Weston combine with the Australians Olive Cotton, Jon Lewis, David Moore, Max Dupain, Juno Gemes, David Potts and Robert Besanko to complete an evocative collective portrait of women. (Full disclosure requires I reveal I have a minor presence in this display. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Photography collection upholds its image Jul 25, 2007
We can see examples of these qualities in Black and White Lillies III (circa 1928) by Imogen Cunningham; Dunes, Oceana (1936) by Edward Weston; Chicago 22 (1949) by Aaron Siskind; and Alley, Chicago (1948) by Harry Callahan. There are only two problems with this exhibit, as I see it. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
Eye on Art: Gallery Night highlights include a photo tour of Peru Jul 20, 2007
Hirsch's shots are an attempt to mimic this premiere documentation, citing famed early 20th century photographer Edward Weston as a prime influence. As a whole, however, the show is more about Hirsch's journey from the bustle of Lima to the Incan centerpiece. (Pensacola News Journal)
Scenic Pacific Coast Highway Drive Jul 16, 2007
Among the best is the Weston Gallery on Sixth Street, with works by famous photographers such as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, a former resident. At the end of Ocean Avenue, Carmel Beach is a peaceful spot with beautiful white sand backed by pine-covered cliffs. (Suite101.com)
Read more... Jun 6, 2007
Also among the photographs are views of New York City; landscape photographs of the West; a portfolio of portraits of his father, renowned photographer Edward Weston; and botanical images from Hawaii ... As Edward Westons son he was exposed to photography at an early age. (PNN Online)
Feminine Force May 18, 2007
" A former videographer and filmmaker, Mr. Connors, one of the founders of Gallery 14 in Hopewell, was originally inspired by black and white photographers in the classical tradition of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. When he shot the old military facility with a professor friend from the University of Notre Dame, he was trying to capture textures in the place. "But then I realized there was something there," Mr. Connors says. "It was something like the old 'Help, I'm trapped behind the... (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
Photo Art 101 May 6, 2007
Edward Weston photographed a bell pepper in 1930 and it opened up a world of visual insight ... On the gallery wall, you see a landscape by Ansel Adams or a still life by Edward Weston or a portrait by Richard Avedon. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Have camera, will travel Mar 25, 2007
Some of the great chapters in photographic history have come from journeys: Timothy O'Sullivan out West, Edward Weston in Mexico, Henri-Cartier Bresson in Spain, Walker Evans in the South, Robert Frank on the road, Diane Arbus through the looking glass. Three of those trips -- Weston's, Cartier-Bresson's, and Frank's -- figure in "Far from Home: Photography, Travel, and Inspiration," which runs at the Art Institute of Chicago through May 6. (Boston Globe)
Landscape And Dreamscape Mar 22, 2007
From early panoramic vistas by Eadweard Muybridge and Robert Vance to the rapturous nature imagery of Adams and Edward Weston to contemporary artist Richard Misrach's Death Valley meditations and Catherine Opie's swooping freeway ramps, the West is perpetually reinvented, re-examined and remade through the photographer's lens. Two current shows register the range and complexity of photography in the West. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Picture this -- while you can Mar 18, 2007
" Estimate: $400,000 to $600,000. The sole certainly unique print on view from the Weston Collection, "Portrait of Edward Weston" by his lover Margrethe Mather (1886-1952), gains value both from its rarity and its intimate relation to its subject, which the warmth of the image seems to reflect. But Mather has nothing like Weston's own importance in the history of the medium, which has probably "depressed" the estimate to $250,000 to $350,000. Many factors account for what will strike most people... (San Francisco Chronicle)
American reflections Mar 2, 2007
It offers an eclectic range of famous faces, iconic images and portraits of average Americans by noted photographers such as Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange and Richard Avedon. "The traveling exhibit represents the beginning of photography to contemporary times," said Jeanne Verhulst, associate curator of exhibitions at George Eastman House. (Pensacola News Journal)
Modernists, colorists, treasures Feb 26, 2007
The show includes some 110 paintings, watercolors, and photographs by such figures as Frederic Remington , Georgia O'Keeffe , Edward Weston , Thomas Hart Benton , Ansel Adams, and Jackson Pollock. 5905 Wilshire Blvd. , 323-857-6000. (Boston Globe)
Weston photos to be shown Feb 13, 2007
The exhibit will also include portraits of the photographer made by his father, Edward Weston. The library s Special Collections photo holdings were initiated at UCSC in the late 1960s with the donation of more than 800 project prints by Edward Weston. (US Santa Cruz Currents, CA)
One man's treasure ... Jan 25, 2007
n 1920 Edward Weston wrote Peace and an hour's time given these, one creates. Emotional heights are easily attained; peace and time are not. (Mount Shasta News, CA)
