Edward Weston

 This week 52Frames asked us to be inspired by a famous photographer. I scoured google images and stumbled across the works of Edward Weston.

Weston was born in 1886 and died in 1958 and is well regarded as a master of 20th century photography. He was even awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in the 1930s, a very prestigious award.

Some of Weston's well known photographs were of a variety of subjects: landscapes, still lifes, nudes, portraits, and more. I personally fell for his photographs of succulents - which I have several that were willing to be photographed. 

In the darkroom, Weston worked on the overall exposure and shadows and highlights. He was known for his black and white images with striking lighting. 

Weston achieved this by using "burning" and "dodging" which are two editing techniques I don't often use, but really pushed myself to this week to achieve these edits.

"My work-purpose, my theme, can most nearly be stated as the recognition, recording and presentation of the interdependence, the relativity, of all things ‒ the universality of basic form" -- Edward Weston

   

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