1852–1934 · United States · Photographer
Gertrude Kasebier
Soft-focus Pictorialist portraits of mothers, children and sitters at rest.
The Manger, 1899Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1886–1958 · UNITED STATES
Edward Weston
Sharp, sensual close-ups of peppers, shells, nudes and dunes.
- Born
- 1886
- Died
- 1958
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1930Pepper No. 30
- 1927Nautilus
WHY THEY MATTER
Co-founder of Group f/64 and the first photographer awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (1937); retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
THE LIFE
Weston was an American photographer who moved from soft-focus Pictorialism to rigorous sharp-focus modernism. His close studies of peppers, shells and nudes turned ordinary forms into near-abstract images. He co-founded Group f/64 and in 1937 became the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. He spent his last years at Point Lobos in California.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
8x10 view camera
Also born in 1850–1899
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Eugene Atget
Patient, empty-street records of old Paris before modernisation.
Avenue des Gobelins, 1927Source: Wikipedia
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Alfred Stieglitz
From Pictorialism to sharp modernism, with a deep belief in photography as art.
The Steerage, 1907Source: Wikipedia
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Lewis Hine
Direct, dignified portraits of working children and labourers.
Young Doffers in the Elk Cotton Mills, 1910Source: Wikipedia
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August Sander
Typological portraits of every class and trade, frontal and calm.
Face of Our Time (Antlitz der Zeit), 1929Source: Wikipedia
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Edward Steichen
Painterly early work, then glossy modern fashion and celebrity portraits.
The Flatiron, 1904Source: Wikipedia