Photography: The Life of Edward Weston

Great American photographer, Edward Weston was born to Alice Jeanette Brett and Edward Burbank Weston in 1886. Weston began his life in Highland, Illinois, but spent most of his childhood living in Chicago. At the early age of five, tragedy struck when his mother passed away. After her death, his sister took on the role of the mother. As a child, Weston found school to be insufferable (Edward Henry Weston: Revealing more than the eye sees, 2004). …

…S. Defense as an air-raid-plane spotter. It was during this time that he began to see the early symptoms of Parkinson's disease (Edward Henry Weston: Revealing more than the eye sees, 2004). Weston's last photographs were taken at Point Lobos, California in 1948. Under his supervision, Weston enlisted the services of his sons Brett and Cole and Brett's wife Dody Warren to print his 800 most important photographs. Weston died on January 1, 1958 in his Carmel home (Edward Weston).