id: 161444 accession number: 2000.123 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2000.123 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:42.062000 Study of David Alberto's Left Hand, c. 1930. Edward Weston (American, 1886–1958). Gelatin silver print; image: 20.6 x 18 cm (8 1/8 x 7 1/16 in.); paper: 28.3 x 21.6 cm (11 1/8 x 8 1/2 in.); matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 2000.123 © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Study of David Alberto's Left Hand title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1930 creation date earliest: 1925 creation date latest: 1935 current location: creditline: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund copyright: © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1900-1950 type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Edward Weston (American, 1886–1958) - artist Edward Weston American, 1886-1958 Edward Weston was one of the most influential proponents of straight photography in America. Born in Highland Park, Illinois, he made his first photographs in 1902 with a Kodak camera given to him by his father. Four years later he settled in California, supporting himself as a portrait photographer. After attending the Illinois College of Photography, he opened a studio in Tropico (now Glendale), California, in 1911. Initially, Weston made photographs in the soft-focus pictorial style. In the early 1920s, however, his work began to become more sharply focused, with a greater emphasis on form and composition. Among the earliest examples of this new approach are his 1922 photographs of the Armco steel mill in Middletown, Ohio. Over the next few years he continued to experiment with this new style, working in Mexico and then San Francisco. A master of lighting and composition, Weston began a series of closeup studies of shells and vegetables in 1927, creating the clearly focused, detailed images for which he became famous. In 1932 Weston joined Ansel Adams, Willard Van Dyke, Imogen Cunningham, and others in founding Group f/64, which advocated straight, unmanipulated photography. Five years later he received the first fellowship awarded to a photographer by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The fellowship was renewed in 1938 and allowed Weston to travel and photograph throughout California and the western United States. Working slowly and methodically with large-format cameras, Weston continued to produce sharply focused contact prints until 1948, when Parkinson's disease forced him to give up photography. In subsequent years Weston's sons, Brett and Cole, worked under his supervision to make prints from his negatives. M.M. --- measurements: Image: 20.6 x 18 cm (8 1/8 x 7 1/16 in.); Paper: 28.3 x 21.6 cm (11 1/8 x 8 1/2 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-06-24T00:00:00 Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007); Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA (October 3, 2009-January 3, 2010). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, September 19 - November 28, 1999: "Edward Weston and Modernism."', 'opening_date': '1999-09-19T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/24/07 - 9/16/07) and the Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittburgh, PA (10/3/2009 - 1/3/2010); "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art", no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '2007-06-24T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” December 12, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: Mentioned: p. 2 url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4361 --- IMAGES