EDWARD   WESTON

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1886 Born March 24th  in Illinois , Highland Park

1902 First camera

1906 Journey to California , to her sister; Acquaintance with Flora Chandler, as a portrait photographer hiking through California

1907- 1911Study at the Illinois College of Photography/ Chicago; During vacation, work as a

 retoucher and laboratory assistant in a Los Angeles photo studio; Return to California

1909 Marriage to Flora Chandler (Sons of Chandler are Brett, Neil, Cole)

1911  Opening of a portrait studio in Tropico (today Glendal , California ) As a sideline

 activity, free camera work, skilled in pictoralism – Master of pure’ photography

1922   Journey to Ohio for taking photographs of the Armco steelworks and at the same time,

 a turning point and stylistic change in his work through the commitment which he made to

 modernism; Acquaintance with and encouragement to Stieglitz, Sheeler and Strand in New

York and then a return to California . 1923 Mexico trip mit Modotti (former lover and muse)  

1924 Intensive involvement with close up work - haptic quality of the images

1925 Return to California

1926 - 1927Another stay in Mexico with Modotti for a portrait study; final task – artistic-photographic platinum/palladium papers in favour of a neutral bromide silver gelatine product; in addition to body studies and embossed photos of nudes increased still life photographs such as floral forms, shells or stones and studies into surface texture, brilliant black and white photographs. 1928 Move to San Francisco. 1929 Through the placement of

 Richard Neutra; Selection of the American contribution to the Stuttgartexhibition ‘Film and Photo togetherwith the coating 1932 Joint exhibition of the ‘f/64’ group (with Sonya Noskowiak, Willard van Dyke, Ansel Adams, Cunningham, John Paul Edwards) in San Francisco ; Orientation towards ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’. 1937 Reciept of a Guggenheim grant – as the first photographer to do so. 1939 Marriage to Charis Wilson.1946 Retrospective exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art  ; Experiments with color photography

1947 Experiments with Ektachrome; Main figure in van Dyke’s film ‘The Photographer’

1948 Task of photography related to disease (Parkinson’s)

1952 ‘Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio’ edition, printed by son, Brett

1958 Death in Wildcat Hill near toCarmel ( California )