LACMA Acquires Vernon Collection of... Aug 14, 2008
Of the artists whose works Mr. and Mrs. Leonard collected, some of those represented in the exhibition include Ansel Adams, Julia Margaret Cameron, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, W.H. Fox Talbot and Edward Weston ... include: The Great Wave, Sete (1856-87) by Gustave le Gray; (1925) by Imogen Cunningham; (1925) by Edward Weston; and Moonrise, Hernandez (1941) by Ansel Adams. (Suite101.com)
NUDE Magazine Sets New Standard for Fine Art, Says Kim Weston Aug 2, 2008
"Imagine, it has taken almost fifty years for America to catch up with the rest of the world in how the female form is viewed as art and not pornography. In Europe and Japan the female body has been viewed in the way NUDE portrays it for decades and now finally in America we have a publication that breaks new ground for artistic freedom. My grandfather, the legendary photographer, Edward Weston, had spent his last years attempting, but with no success, to publish his work in a format similar to... (PR Newswire)
Malibu Seen (9) Apr 18, 2008
Thursday, February 01, 2007 Edition. " They were all sufficiently striking and all POR, that's price on request.There were sensational '60s society photos from Slim Aarons, including one of eccentric Peggy Guggenheim in her off-beat Venetian Palazzo. Another called "Gossip" captured ladies of the day lounging by a Palm Springs pool with their groovy bikinis and beehive hairdos.Around the corner, Michael Eastman was back with his captivating lost-in-time Cuban interiors. Gorgeous in their faded... (Malibu Times, CA)
Recession, what recession? Apr 14, 2008
6 million for an Edward Weston photograph at Sotheby's. And the GoldBar, a downtown lounge, reports that bankers continue to order $3,000 bottles of R. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Travel briefs Apr 6, 2008
Through June 8, the museum is hosting a show called "Looking Through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," featuring prints by Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston. For more information, visit. (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
Art shows bloom in galleries and venues around Fresno Apr 2, 2008
Spectrum's Web site states that Beal's work has focused on simple images that use basic design elements, such as shape and line and natural light, to "highlight or alter the viewer's perceptions." The current series possesses some of the same principles but also explores Beal's fascination with windows and doors: "Doors and windows can be a metaphor for life's travels. Sometimes we know what is on the 'other' side, and sometimes there is mystery; something unknown yet to be discovered."Ross... (Fresno Bee)
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)
Pinch of luck saves cookbook project Dec 28, 2006
It was a Bohemian-like place, with artists such as pioneering modernist painter Peter Krasnow, photographer Edward Weston, designers Charles and Ray Eames and architect John Lautner frequent guests. When she wasn't doing sculptures commissioned by Walt Disney or organizations such as the Braille Institute, Evelyn Gebhardt loved to cook. (Los Angeles Times)
Bernhard refined photos as art Dec 22, 2006
APPRECIATION / Over long career, Bernhard helped make photography into a finer art. " Weston was a major champion of photography as an autonomous art form, and Bernhard took the lesson, although she resorted to commercial studio portraiture to support herself in Los Angeles. From Weston, Bernhard said, she learned to wait; wait for the elements that make a good photograph to converge before the lens, "until objects, light and impulse come together just right. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Inherited Inspirations Dec 12, 2006
" Paul, originally from New Rochelle, N.Y., studied photography with Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and Minor White while a student at the California Institute of the Arts. He went on to be a freelance photographer in the '50s and '60s, shooting for LIFE and TIME magazines, as well as the General Electric company. When he died, he was living in White Plains, N.Y., where John spent most of his childhood. After high school, John completed his undergraduate studies at Skidmore College in Saratoga... (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
Daydreams and Decay Dec 1, 2006
Mr. Becotte studied fine art photography in the 1960s, and was influenced by photographers such as Minor White, Edward Weston and Robert Frank. After studying with Aaron Siskind, he focused on both abstract and landscape photography and street photography before concentrating on constructed scenes. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
'Ansel Adams at Manzanar' Nov 24, 2006
A mutual friend, photographer Edward Weston, told Adams to find Toyo Miyatake at the camp. A shot of the Miyatake family sitting in their living room is one of the 54 photographs on display at the museum. (Los Angeles Times)
A PLACE IN HISTORY Nov 6, 2006
Derek Gee/Buffalo NewsMilton Rogovins work is being placed next to the careers of Ansell Adams, Edward Weston, and other major figures ... "His career is being placed next to the careers of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and other major figures.". (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
A glimpse into imagination Oct 20, 2006
The nudes almost vanish into the shadow, midnight blue on black -- Rembrandt meets Edward Weston. In one work, hands are gently open, one cupping the underside of the other's wrist. (Boston Globe)
The Getty Opens Up to a Slice of America PHOTOS Oct 9, 2006
sebier, Frederick Sommer, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston. In recent years many works by contemporary photographers, such as John Divola, William Eggleston and David Hockney, have joined them. (Los Angeles Times)
Sandra Phillips on where to find the best modern photography Oct 2, 2006
She and Edward Weston were having a very intense amorous relationship. She persuaded Weston to come live in Mexico and start a portrait studio, which she would manage. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Debunking The Myth Sep 10, 2006
September 10, 2006 By DEBORAH HORNBLOW, Courant Staff Writer When the Mexican painter Diego Rivera first saw Edward Weston's iconic photographs of a nautilus shell in the late 1920s, he was physically overwhelmed - "My forehead is sweating," he wrote - and he pronounced his friend's work "biological." ... In "Edward Weston: A Photographer's Love of Life," a traveling exhibition that opens Saturday at Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, curator Alexander Nyerges debunks this myth and... (CTNow.com)
Revisiting the past in video clips and vinyl Jun 3, 2006
01:00 AMThe Corkin Shopland Gallery (55 Mill St., Building 61, Distillery District) has a pair of dramatic, can't-miss shows, one from a new art star the Moscow-born photographer Anastasia Khoroshilova the other an "Icons" group show made up of legendary American photographers such as Edward Weston. But the most interesting work as opposed to the most impressive is the third one in the gallery's intimate video area. (Toronto Star -- Arts)
Pine Tree and Wind of Tahit: Bae Bien-U Jun 2, 2006
To achieve this effect, the artist has looked at the work of great artists of the past such as Edward Weston, who offered him a different way of looking at nature, and Lszl Moholy-Nagy, whose work is represented in the Museums Permanent Collection, and from whom Bae learned a new concept of light. The large scale of the photographs and the frequent use of a horizontal format help to create the sensation of entering into the depths of a forest. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Gift of Brett Weston photos valued at more than $1 million May 20, 2006
The University 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, Brett s father ... Mr. Keesee has only made gifts previously to such select institutions as the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Center for Creative Photography," she said. While a teenager, Brett Weston began taking photographs at his father s side in Mexico, and he went on to forge a distinguished independent career that spanned... (US Santa Cruz Currents, CA)
Philip Hyde, 84; His Wilderness Photos Made a Case for Conservation Efforts Apr 16, 2006
"Philip Hyde, following Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, is one of four or five great photographers of the Western landscape," Allan Dyson, UC Santa Cruz librarian, said in 2002 when Hyde donated his 50-year archive to the university. The Sierra Club and its outspoken leader, David Brower, launched a series of "battle books" in the 1950s to make a case for protecting national parks in the West from dam construction and other development. (Los Angeles Times)
Steichen Photograph Sells for Record $2.9 Million at Sotheby's Feb 16, 2006
Photos by Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange each sold for $822,400 last October at Sotheby's New York. Christie's International also had claimed the record for the most expensive photograph sold at auction. (Bloomberg)
