Brett Weston

George Tice - Eclectic post-Modern Photographer

The Compass Rose (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009

George Tice [1938-] occupies a position, historically, that follows closely the Second Generation of photographers in a sequence that begins roughly with the F64 Group (which included Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Alma Levenson, Brett Weston, and a half dozen others), Dorothea Lange and Paul Strand, in the early Thirties, followed by a second wave that included Morley Baer, Brett Weston...

The Currier Museum of Art presents Brett Weston ~ Out of the Shadow

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009

MANCHESTER, NH.- Brett Weston (1911-1993) was considered by many to be brilliant, visionary, prodigious, and among the most important photographers of the twentieth century. Yet, his achievements have often been overshadowed by those of his renowned father, Edward Weston. In the first major exhibition in 30 years to be dedicated to Brett’s prolific body of work, "Brett Weston: Out of the...

• Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow at the Currier Museum of Art - Artdaily

In order to write didactic text for...

Makura no Soshi (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009

In order to write didactic text for press prints for Anita Brenner's Idols Behind Altars by Tina Modotti/Edward Weston, I ended up spending the last few days reading Weston's Mexico and California daybooks, Tina Conger's study of Weston's Mexico years, and Anita Brenner's biography, written by her daughter. What I learned: Brenner studied at Columbia with Franz Boas and was a contemporary of Ruth Benedict...