Edward Weston
Edward Weston was a American Photographer who is most best known for his high quality natural form, landscape, and his nude photography. Its is also said that he helped pioneered a modernist style that was characterized by the use of large format cameras that created sharply focused and detailed black and white images. " quintessentially American, and especially Californian, approach to modern photography" because of his focus on the people and places of the American West Edward Weston was an American Photographer who is known for his high quality natural form, nude, and landscape photography. He was born in 1886 in Highland Park, Illinois. He got his first camera on his 16th birthday from his father, a Kodak Bull-Eye No. 2 which is a simple box camera. Soon after this his interest in photography grew and it lead him to purchasing his first camera which was a 5x7in view camera. He started to photograph in Chicago park and on the farm that his aunt owned. It was also a...