Edward WestonAmerican, 1886–1958Eroded Rock, Point Lobos
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New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- 1891.1968
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- The Museum of Modern Art
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Meanwhile, in the life of Edward Weston
The whole lifeFebruary 1927
Meets Henrietta Shore
The Canadian painter Henrietta Shore, whom he asks to comment on the photographs of Wardell, gives an honest critique that surprises him: he is making too many nudes, is getting used to them, and the subject no longer amazes him. Intrigued by her large paintings of sea shells, he borrows several from her, hoping to find inspiration for a new series of still lifes.
September 1927
A major exhibition at the Palace of the Legion of Honor
In September he has a major exhibition at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.
September 1927
Meets Willard Van Dyke
At the opening of the show he meets the photographer Willard Van Dyke, who later introduces him to Ansel Adams.
May 1928
The Mojave Desert: his first landscapes as art
A brief but important trip with Brett to the Mojave Desert, where he first explores and photographs landscape as an art form. The stark rock forms and empty spaces are a visual revelation to him; over a long weekend he takes twenty-seven photographs and declares in his journal that these negatives are the most important he has ever done.
1929
Regular trips to Point Lobos
He starts making regular trips to nearby Point Lobos, where he will continue to photograph until the end of his career; there he learns to fine-tune his vision to the visual space of his view camera, and the images he takes there, of kelp, rocks and wind-blown trees, are among his finest.
1930–1931
A series of one-man exhibitions, 1930–1931
The first is at Alma Reed’s Delphic Studio Gallery in New York, followed closely by the same show at the Denny Watrous Gallery in Carmel; both receive rave reviews, including a two-page article in the New York Times Magazine. Shows at the De Young Museum in San Francisco and the Galerie Jean Naert in Paris follow.
