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Title: Edward Weston periodical collection
Dates (inclusive): 1930-1980
Bulk dates: 1950-1980
Collection Number: 645289
Creator:
Waltman, Jack, collector.
Waltman, Beverly, collector.
Extent:
55 items in 3 boxes.
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Rare Books Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains fifty-five magazines, exhibition catalogs, brochures, and other printed material related to
the career and life of Edward Weston (1886-1958), a pioneering 20th-century American photographer known for his exploration
of form in landscapes, still lifes, and nudes.
The collection includes published writings by and about Weston;
publications containing his photographs; exhibition catalogs and brochures that feature his work and his contemporaries;
as well as later tributes and articles about the photographer.
Language: English.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader
Services.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and
obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item], Edward Weston periodical collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
The Photographer: from a motion picture about Edward Weston was received as the gift of Jack and Beverly Waltman, August 2014;
all other items are the gift of Jack and Beverly Waltman, March 2015.
Edward Weston (1886-1958) was a pioneering 20th-century American photographer known for his exploration of form in landscapes,
still lifes, and nudes.
Weston was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 24, 1886, and later moved to the Los Angeles, California, area, where he opened
a portrait studio in 1911.
Weston moved to Northern California in 1929 and began taking photographs of the region including many in the Point Lobos area
near Carmel. In the 1930s,
Weston participated in numerous exhibitions and was involved with other California photographers including Ansel Adams, Imogen
Cunningham, John Paul Edwards,
Sonya Noskowiak, Henry Swift, and Weston's apprentice Willard Van Dyke, with whom Weston founded the Group f/64 photography
group in 1932. In 1937,
Weston became the first photographer awarded a Guggenheim Foundation grant, and he published his first book of photographs,
Seeing California with
Edward Weston,
in 1939. In the early 1940s, Weston selected and printed 500 of his photographs as a gift to the Huntington Library. Weston
was
diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1947 and stopped taking photographs a year later. Weston died on January 1, 1958.
One of Weston's sons, Brett Weston (1911-1993), became a photographer and often collaborated with his father.
This collection contains fifty-five magazines, exhibition catalogs, brochures, and other printed material related to the career
and life of American photographer Edward Weston.
The collection includes published writings by and about Edward Weston; publications containing his photographs; exhibition
catalogs and brochures that feature his work and his
contemporaries;
as well as later tributes and articles about the
photographer. The materials also include information about Group f64 and some of the items also focus on the photography of
Weston's son Brett Weston.
Within the collection, there are seven periodicals with content by Weston, including three essays by Weston about photography
in
The Complete Photographer and
American Photography. The twenty-nine periodicals with content about Weston include
articles in photography journals, as well as popular magazines such as
Westways, and vary from profiles of Weston to brief mentions of his work
or articles accompanied by Weston's photographs.
Related materials in the Huntington Library and Art Collections
- Edward Weston Photograph Collection (Art Collections)
- Jack and Beverly Waltman Collection (photCL 553)
- Wilson, Charis. Journal of Guggenheim year, 1937, March 22-1939, April 24 (mssHM 51997)
- Wilson, Charis. Journal, letters and notes documenting the Whitman trip with Edward Weston, 1939-1996 (mssWilson, Charis journal)
The materials are organized in 3 series:
- Periodicals with content by Weston (Items 1-7)
- Periodicals with content about Weston (Items 8-37)
- Exhibition catalogs and miscellaneous (Items 38-55)
Within the series, items are arranged chronologically.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Weston, Brett.
Weston, Brett -- Exhibitions.
Weston, Edward, 1886-1958.
Weston, Edward, 1886-1958 -- Exhibitions.
Group f.64.
Photographers -- California -- Biography.
Photography, Artistic -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Photography -- Periodicals.
Exhibition Catalogs -- United States -- 20th century.
Magazines (periodicals).
Periodicals.
Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984, photographer.
Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991, photographer.
Bernhard, Ruth, photographer.
Gagliani, Oliver, photographer.
Gilpin, Henry, 1922-2011, photographer.
Garnett, William, 1916-2006, photographer.
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975, photographer.
McSavaney, Ray, photographer.
Sexton, John, 1953-, photographer.
Weston, Brett, photographer.
Weston, Edward, 1886-1958, photographer.