Edward Weston

Edward Weston is an American photographer born in California. He started his own photograph business, Little Studio in Tropico, California.He traveled to New York and Mexico as well. He used a large-format camera to get detailed black and white photos. Along with Ansel Adams, he helped pioneer a modernist style. He tried to catch the American lifestyle through nature, using nudes, still lifes, portraits, and landscapes. Him and a few other photographers- Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams, and others- formed a group called Group f/64 to honor aperture priority. He got Parkinson's Disease and was forced to stop photography, and died in 1958.

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