Brett Weston
Photographer, Visual Artist
1911 – 1993
Who was Brett Weston?
Brett Weston was an American photographer. Van Deren Coke described Brett Weston as the "child genius of American photography." He was the second of the four sons of photographer Edward Weston and Flora Chandler.
Weston began taking photographs in 1925, while living in Mexico with Tina Modotti and his father. He began showing his photographs with Edward Weston in 1927, was featured at the international exhibition at Film und Foto in Germany at age 17, and mounted his first one-man museum retrospective at age 21 at the De Young Museum in San Francisco in January, 1932.
Weston's earliest images from the 1920s reflect his intuitive sophisticated sense of abstraction. He often flattened the plane, engaging in layered space, an artistic style more commonly seen among the Abstract Expressionists and more modern painters like David Hockney than other photographers. He began photographing the dunes at Oceano, California, in the early 1930s. This was a favorite location of his father Edward and a location that they later shared with Brett's wife Dody Weston Thompson.
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- Born
- Dec 16, 1911
Los Angeles - Parents
- Siblings
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Hawaii
( - 1993/01/22)
- Hawaii
- Died
- Jan 22, 1993
Kona District, Hawaii
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on July 23, 2013
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