Untitled (San Francisco)

Brett Weston1938

Details

Title: Untitled (San Francisco)
Creator: Brett Weston
Creator Lifespan: 1911 - 1993
Creator Nationality: American
Creator Gender: Male
Creator Death Place: Kona, Hawaii
Creator Birth Place: Los Angeles, California
Date Created: 1938
Physical Dimensions: w242.82 x h195.33 in (image)
Type: photograph
Rights: © The Brett Weston Archive
External Link: SFMOMA
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Subject: San Francisco, United States
Place Part Of: United States
More Info: More About This Artist - SFMOMA
Credit Line: Gift of the artist
About the Artist: Brett Weston, the second of four sons of the noted California photographer Edward Weston, demonstrated prodigious talent with a camera by the age of 14. He was given his first exhibition at 16, and at 18 his work was included in the landmark 1929 exhibition Film und Foto in Stuttgart, Germany. Until Edward's death in 1958, the two Westons worked closely together, inspired each other, and often exhibited jointly. A superb technician, Brett Weston often printed for his father, especially when Edward became incapacitated by Parkinson's disease in the 1950s. Like his father, his primary concern was formal and his subject was the natural landscape, yet his interest in abstract pattern and design was all his own.

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