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Brett Weston  -  Spanish Village, Spain, 1960 / Silver Gelatin Print  -  14.75 x 18.5

Brett Weston - Spanish Village, Spain, 1960

Silver Gelatin Print - 14.75 x 18.5

Brett Weston  -  Mendenhall Glacier, 1973 / Silver Gelatin Print  -  10.5 x 13

Brett Weston - Mendenhall Glacier, 1973

Silver Gelatin Print - 10.5 x 13

Brett Weston  -  Beech Forest, Luxembourg, 1971 / Silver Gelatin Print  -  12.75 x 10.5

Brett Weston - Beech Forest, Luxembourg, 1971

Silver Gelatin Print - 12.75 x 10.5

Brett Weston  -  Gondolas, Venice, Italy, 1971 / Silver Gelatin Print  -  10.5 x 11.25

Brett Weston - Gondolas, Venice, Italy, 1971

Silver Gelatin Print - 10.5 x 11.25

Brett Weston  -  Mono Lake / Silver Gelatin Print  -  7.5 x 9.5

Brett Weston - Mono Lake

Silver Gelatin Print - 7.5 x 9.5

Brett Weston  -  Zabriskie Point, 1971 / Silver Gelatin Print  -  7.5 x 9.5

Brett Weston - Zabriskie Point, 1971

Silver Gelatin Print - 7.5 x 9.5

Brett Weston  -  Untitled, (cactus) / Silver Gelatin Print  -  7.5 x 9.5

Brett Weston - Untitled, (cactus)

Silver Gelatin Print - 7.5 x 9.5

Brett Weston  -  Grooved Rock, Point Lobos, 1969 / Silver Gelatin Print  -  12.5 x 10.5

Brett Weston - Grooved Rock, Point Lobos, 1969

Silver Gelatin Print - 12.5 x 10.5

Brett Weston  -  Lichen, 1970 / Silver Gelatin Print  -  10.5 x 11.5

Brett Weston - Lichen, 1970

Silver Gelatin Print - 10.5 x 11.5

Brett Weston  -  Portrait of Edward Weston, 1940 /   -

Brett Weston - Portrait of Edward Weston, 1940

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Brett Weston

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Brett Weston (December 16, 1911, Los Angeles – January 22, 1993, Hawaii) was an American photographer. Van Deren Coke described Brett Weston as the “child genius of American photography.” He was the second of the four sons of photographer Edward Weston and Flora Chandler.

Weston began taking photographs in 1925, while living in Mexico with Tina Modotti and his father. He began showing his photographs with Edward Weston in 1927, was featured at the international exhibition at Film und Foto in Germany at age 17, and mounted his first one-man museum retrospective at age 21 at the De Young Museum in San Francisco in January, 1932.

Weston’s earliest images from the 1920s reflect his intuitive sophisticated sense of abstraction. He often flattened the plane, engaging in layered space, an artistic style more commonly seen among the Abstract Expressionists and more modern painters like David Hockney than other photographers. He began photographing the dunes at Oceano, California, in the early 1930s. This eventually became a favorite location of his father Edward and later shared with Brett’s third wife Dody Weston Thompson. Brett preferred the high gloss papers and ensuing sharp clarity of the gelatin silver photographic materials of the f64 Group rather than the platinum matte photographic papers common in the 1920s and encouraged Edward Weston to explore the new silver papers in his own work. Brett Weston was credited by photography historian Beaumont Newhall as the first photographer to make negative space the subject of a photograph. Donald Ross, a photographer close to both Westons, said that Brett never came after anyone. He was a true photographic equal and colleague to his father and “one should not be considered without the other.”

“Brett and I are always seeing the same kinds of things to do – we have the same kind of vision. Brett didn’t like this; naturally enough, he felt that even when he had done the thing first, the public would not know and he would be blamed for imitating me.” Edward Weston – Daybooks – May 24, 1930.

Brett Weston used to refer to Edward Weston lovingly as “my biggest fan” and there was no rivalry between the two photographic giants. Brett and his wife Dody loyally set aside their own photography to help Edward after he was unable to print his own images due to Parkinson’s disease, which claimed Edward’s life in 1958.

Brett Weston was ranked one of the top ten photographers collected by American museums by the final decade of his life. His photographs are included in the collections of countless museums, including the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

SELECT HERE to link to the Brett Weston Archive web page.

The work of Brett Weston is featured in this exhibition.

(Select the image to view the exhibition page)

Edward Weston, Chambered Nautilus, 1927

The Weston Legacy

Brett, Cole & Neil Weston, Discuss Their Father

In this video from 1971 Brett, Cole and Neil Weston discuss the work of their father and add personal stories of what is was like to grow up as sons of this iconic artist.

The video is from the Eikon Gallery Video Series (14:01 length). The host is Steve James, he, along with his wife Sue were owners and operators of the Eikon Gallery in Monterey California in the early 1970’s. In the summer and fall of 1971 they produced 14 episodes in this series featuring photographers and photography related topics. Guests included, Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Beaumont Newhall, Al Weber and others.
Edward Weston’s artist page.
Exclusive interview with Brett, Cole & Neil Weston, conducted by Steve James of the Eikon Gallery (Monterey CA), is shown here for the first time since its initial airing in 1971. This is the full length version of the interview that has been edited for the “Bio” tab above.
James, along with his wife Sue James were owners and operators of the Eikon Gallery in Monterey California in the early 1970’s.
13:44 – video length

View all 14 interviews in the Eikon Series

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