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Brett Weston
American, 1911 - 1993
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Brett Weston may be
said to be the first successful artistic heir in the history of
photography. The son of Edward Weston, Brett was taught the
basics of photography by his father at the young age of
fourteen, and set out on his own from that point on. At sixteen
he had his first one-man show, and received international
recognition at eighteen when a score of his photographs were
displayed in the legendary “Film und Foto” exhibition of 1929 in
Stuttgart. By the age of twenty, his photographs were on view in
major shows in the US, Europe, and Japan. Since then, Weston’s
photographs have been featured in hundreds of exhibitions around
the world, and are staples in the collections of leading museums
and galleries. Concerned with the elemental mass of forms, he is
known for his great abstractions; he is also generally
acknowledged as one of the finest printers in the medium.
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