EDWARD WESTON

Edward Henry Weston was a 20th century American photographer. He was born on March 24th of 1886 in Chicago and he died on January 1st of 1958 in California. He was know as "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography". Since he was young he knew that he wanted to be a photographer. Finally he became one and at the beginning he used a style called "soft focus pictorialism". However, some years later, he changed that style to another one based on highly detailed photographic images.

To take pictures, he specially focused on nudes, landscapes, expansive set of subjects, still lifes, portraits and genre scenes. He also focused on people and places of the American West, as well as California.

He was the first photographer who received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1947 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and he had to stop taking pictures. The last 10 years of his life he spent watching how his pictures were printed.