Personal Background
Edward Weston was an american photographer born in Highland park Illinois. Born in 1886, started his journey of photography, of discovery at the age of 16; his father gave him a camera at this age and this, would begin his career. In the early 1900s, famous works of art were making their place; take for example, the featuring of the first silent film, the great train robbery. In 1902 it was recorded that he was taking pictures in Chicago parks and in the next year, 1903, his art was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. Three years later, Weston moved to California and opened a portrait studio in a Los Angeles suburb. He was known as a revolutionary man of the 20th century in photography.
Style
At first, Weston made photography that was known as pictographs. Though as he went on in his career, he became more well known as an abstract photographer. His work is simple, but yet so in depth. The objects and shots that he captures are clear and balanced in such an asymmetrical fashion. You can feel some sort of satisfactory power in his work when you examine it.
Philosophy
As Weston went on to continue his work, he felt the need to work outside of commercial demands . In doing so he would create work by using unalloyed, tools and materials. Weston wanted to capture an emotional intensity in a sort of capsule, in one simple, but beautiful shot. He keeps a sharp eye on every detail within the composition, from line, shadow, shape, and balance.
Influences
It is with Weston's work that I have been able to see what some would call, a perfect picture. I wouldn't say that his work is exactly, well composed and balanced. That isn't to say that this is implying that his work is bad, instead I would describe his work as blissfully silent. The one major issue that I seem to have when it comes to taking pictures is ignoring some of the extra bits of noise within the picture. Looking at Weston's work, I can see a truly remarkable balance of positioning and placement within the subject. Everything in his pictures has a well defined subject and no noise to blur out the subject at hand.
Edward Weston was an american photographer born in Highland park Illinois. Born in 1886, started his journey of photography, of discovery at the age of 16; his father gave him a camera at this age and this, would begin his career. In the early 1900s, famous works of art were making their place; take for example, the featuring of the first silent film, the great train robbery. In 1902 it was recorded that he was taking pictures in Chicago parks and in the next year, 1903, his art was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. Three years later, Weston moved to California and opened a portrait studio in a Los Angeles suburb. He was known as a revolutionary man of the 20th century in photography.
Style
At first, Weston made photography that was known as pictographs. Though as he went on in his career, he became more well known as an abstract photographer. His work is simple, but yet so in depth. The objects and shots that he captures are clear and balanced in such an asymmetrical fashion. You can feel some sort of satisfactory power in his work when you examine it.
Philosophy
As Weston went on to continue his work, he felt the need to work outside of commercial demands . In doing so he would create work by using unalloyed, tools and materials. Weston wanted to capture an emotional intensity in a sort of capsule, in one simple, but beautiful shot. He keeps a sharp eye on every detail within the composition, from line, shadow, shape, and balance.
Influences
It is with Weston's work that I have been able to see what some would call, a perfect picture. I wouldn't say that his work is exactly, well composed and balanced. That isn't to say that this is implying that his work is bad, instead I would describe his work as blissfully silent. The one major issue that I seem to have when it comes to taking pictures is ignoring some of the extra bits of noise within the picture. Looking at Weston's work, I can see a truly remarkable balance of positioning and placement within the subject. Everything in his pictures has a well defined subject and no noise to blur out the subject at hand.
Compare/Contrast
My work is on the right and on the left is Edward Weston's work. Due to some sort of editing issue, for the garlic and the mushroom, I wasn't able to get critical editing onto the photos and upload them to weebly. The edits that were supposed to put in were curve works. In Edward Weston's shots, his work has a sharp sense to it. A subtle sharp brightness in darkness that illuminates the eyes enough to make it stand out in pitch black. I attempted to capture this with black fabric, but I would say I only captured so much.
Here are links to Edward Weston's works.
http://leahwickes.blogspot.com/2011/03/homage-photography-edward-weston.html
https://katiepaton123.wordpress.com/2014/05/13/analysis-of-edward-weston-experiments/
https://tonyamorton.wordpress.com/tag/edward-weston/
Artist Statement
With some help from my mother, she was able to help me creation these series of shots. It was kind of funny actually, she took a few college art classes and knows a thing or two about how to make a photo look good. Though it didn't take an art class to know that the best way to take these shots was to use something like a black fabric. I figured that there was something else that could've been used for this, but I didn't have a clue what would've been better. I had to shut off a lot of light from the room I was in order to get decent shots.
My work is on the right and on the left is Edward Weston's work. Due to some sort of editing issue, for the garlic and the mushroom, I wasn't able to get critical editing onto the photos and upload them to weebly. The edits that were supposed to put in were curve works. In Edward Weston's shots, his work has a sharp sense to it. A subtle sharp brightness in darkness that illuminates the eyes enough to make it stand out in pitch black. I attempted to capture this with black fabric, but I would say I only captured so much.
Here are links to Edward Weston's works.
http://leahwickes.blogspot.com/2011/03/homage-photography-edward-weston.html
https://katiepaton123.wordpress.com/2014/05/13/analysis-of-edward-weston-experiments/
https://tonyamorton.wordpress.com/tag/edward-weston/
Artist Statement
With some help from my mother, she was able to help me creation these series of shots. It was kind of funny actually, she took a few college art classes and knows a thing or two about how to make a photo look good. Though it didn't take an art class to know that the best way to take these shots was to use something like a black fabric. I figured that there was something else that could've been used for this, but I didn't have a clue what would've been better. I had to shut off a lot of light from the room I was in order to get decent shots.