Edward Weston

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Edward Weston (1886–1958) is one of the seminal figures of twentieth-century photography. An exponent of ‘straight photography’, Weston was committed to making photographs ‘free from technical tricks and incoherent emotionalism’ which were able to capture the essence of the subject. His series of self-portraits, nudes, landscapes and close-up still-lifes defined modernist photography in their formal elegance, simplicity and abstraction. The first photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1937, Weston is among the most influential figures in the history of photography.Amy Conger is the foremost authority on Edward Weston, specializing particularly in Weston’s work in Mexico and his collaboration with Tina Modotti. Conger is the editor of the vast catalogue of the Weston archive at the Collection of the Center of Creative Photography in Arizona.