edward weston
edward weston was born on march 24th 1886 and died on january 1st 1958, leaving him 71 years. For around 40 of them, he dedicated to making photographs, only to stop taking pictures in 1947 due to his later developed parkinson's disease (he continued to develop his negatives after that). weston did attend an art school, but he dropped out early after he finished all of the course work in 6 months and refused to pay the rest of the 9 month course. He then moved back to California (as he had been there previously before he went back to his birth state for schooling) to fully pursue his dream. He published many of his works after that time, his pepper and cabbage photographs being the most popular, until his death in 1958. personally, edward weston is one of my favorite photographers solely for his pictures of vegetables. i like his work because it causes eye movement, has dramatic lighting and great composition, but i especially like his work because he choses to do more with, lets say a pepper, than any other artist. he seems to choose his subject based off of the human body (like pictures 2 and 3 above suggest). the way the peppers grow makes me think that it reminds him of the human body, and photographs it as such. weston almost makes the pictures romantic by creating a mood with the lighting/position of the pepper.
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