Edward Weston

Grant Snodgrass

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Computers Class

 Edward Weston 

Over view of Weston’s life: Edward Weston was a very influential American photographer. Weston was born in Chicago in 1886. He moved to California to study pictorialism, which was a popular type of photography then. After this he decided that pictorialism was not the right kind of photography for him so he moved on to a different type of photography that was much more advanced and was much more detailed. 

Over the next forty four years of Weston’s life he expanded to a extremely wide variations of photography such as still life, landscapes and most any other. He was the first to get the Guddenheim Fellowship award for photography with his 8x10 camera. Some of Weston’s most famous photos are from the trees, rocks and nature near his home in California.   

  Sadly Weston was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1947 and stopped his photography currier then. For the ten years following that he saw that all of his 1,00 most famous pictures were printed. Until in 1958 when he died from his disease. 

Weston’s earlier life: He was born in Highland Park Illinois. He was the second child of Edward and Alice Weston who was a Shakespearean actress. Edward Weston’s mother died when he was just five years old so Weston was raised by his one older sister who was just nine when their mother died. Edward and his sister, May, had a very strong relation ship from their early years. It was on of the only solid relationships that Weston had.       

Weston’s later life: May moved to California when Weston was about 21 and because of their close relationship Weston moved down there from Illinois as well to pursue his interest in photography. But there they did not have the professional training in photography that he needed, so Weston moved back to Illinois to take a better 9 mouth course in photography, he finished it in 5 mouths. This degree would lead to a 44 career of photography. 

    

3 Portrait Photos

3 Photos of my beautiful mother . . . 

Pictures

Here are some pictures that I think relate to myself . . .

• How do you view the world around you? I think this is a very brad question, because there is a lot of different ways to take it and I guess that I kinda in a way just did answer it by viewing that question in a certain way. When I am doing photography I view the world as kinda how it would be in a picture, like " would that look good in black and white" or "oh, that would look really cool if . . ." 
• What inspires you? Again a very brad question. Generally I am expired by things that are better then me, like for example if I am doing soccer and there is someone that is much better at the game then I am they inspire me to do better and work harder. 
• Who inspires you? If we are talking specifics my dad really inspires me. I am inspired by how hard he works for our family, how he is such a nice person and makes everyone feel important and cared for. He is really funny, which I love and is a all around great person. When I get older I would be horned to be like him.    
• How do you see your personality coming through your photography? When I take pictures I look for things that I like, so maybe I really like doing stuff on my computer (surprise, surprise I am on it right now) I would look to try to find a cool way to portray it in a picture. Also somethings I take pictures of are just kind of weird and don't really make sense and that kinda reminds me of my self so there you go. 
• What are your hobbies? Like I said before I like just messing around on my computer, you know playing games, doing research, watching videos. I don't know if this counts a a hobby, but I really like hanging out with friends and my sisters, yes believe it or not Im a 12 year old kid that gets along great with my two older sisters. I like most all sports except for boiling, I mean what's the point of paying 20+$ just to knock down plastic things with a ball and why would you want to even watch it on Tv because the people are so good they just get strikes every time, its discouraging. Although I would take photos of billing pins.     
• What genre of photography interests you the most and why?  I don't know if this is a genre, but abstract photography. I kinda like that abstract kind of stuff that you would see in a starbucks or something it pretty cool. I like taking photos of single objects that are small and unique like a playing card or soccer ball. I think its cool to take something small and simple like that, edit it and make it look really cool.   

Grant William