Huntington Library, Rare Book Collections

Weston (Edward) periodical collection, 1930-1980, bulk 1950-1980

Summary

Title:
Edward Weston periodical collection
Dates:
1930-1980, bulk 1950-1980
Creators:
Waltman, Jack, collector. Waltman, Beverly, collector.
Abstract:
This collection contains fifty-five magazines, exhibition catalogs, brochures, and other printed material related to the career and life of Edward Weston (1886-1958), a pioneering 20th-century American photographer known for his exploration of form in landscapes, still lifes, and nudes. The collection includes published writings by and about Weston; publications containing his photographs; exhibition catalogs and brochures that feature his work and his contemporaries; as well as later tributes and articles about the photographer.
Extent:
55 items in 3 boxes.
Language:
English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Edward Weston periodical collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains fifty-five magazines, exhibition catalogs, brochures, and other printed material related to the career and life of American photographer Edward Weston. The collection includes published writings by and about Edward Weston; publications containing his photographs; exhibition catalogs and brochures that feature his work and his contemporaries; as well as later tributes and articles about the photographer. The materials also include information about Group f64 and some of the items also focus on the photography of Weston's son Brett Weston.

Within the collection, there are seven periodicals with content by Weston, including three essays by Weston about photography in The Complete Photographer and American Photography. The twenty-nine periodicals with content about Weston include articles in photography journals, as well as popular magazines such as Westways, and vary from profiles of Weston to brief mentions of his work or articles accompanied by Weston's photographs.

Biographical / historical:

Edward Weston (1886-1958) was a pioneering 20th-century American photographer known for his exploration of form in landscapes, still lifes, and nudes. Weston was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 24, 1886, and later moved to the Los Angeles, California, area, where he opened a portrait studio in 1911. Weston moved to Northern California in 1929 and began taking photographs of the region including many in the Point Lobos area near Carmel. In the 1930s, Weston participated in numerous exhibitions and was involved with other California photographers including Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, John Paul Edwards, Sonya Noskowiak, Henry Swift, and Weston's apprentice Willard Van Dyke, with whom Weston founded the Group f/64 photography group in 1932. In 1937, Weston became the first photographer awarded a Guggenheim Foundation grant, and he published his first book of photographs, Seeing California with Edward Weston, in 1939. In the early 1940s, Weston selected and printed 500 of his photographs as a gift to the Huntington Library. Weston was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1947 and stopped taking photographs a year later. Weston died on January 1, 1958.

One of Weston's sons, Brett Weston (1911-1993), became a photographer and often collaborated with his father.

Acquisition information:
The Photographer: from a motion picture about Edward Weston was received as the gift of Jack and Beverly Waltman, August 2014; all other items are the gift of Jack and Beverly Waltman, March 2015.
Arrangement:

The materials are organized in 3 series:

  • Periodicals with content by Weston (Items 1-7)
  • Periodicals with content about Weston (Items 8-37)
  • Exhibition catalogs and miscellaneous (Items 38-55)

Within the series, items are arranged chronologically.

Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Photographers -- California -- Biography.
Photography, Artistic -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Photography -- Periodicals.
Exhibition Catalogs -- United States -- 20th century.
Magazines (periodicals).
Periodicals.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Diann Benti.
Date Prepared:
© 2015
Date Encoded:
Machine readable finding aid encoded by Diann Benti in October 2015 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.

Terms of access:

The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Edward Weston periodical collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2191
reference@huntington.org
Website

Contents

Container List

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Periodicals with content by Weston, 1942/1957

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Items 1-7

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The Complete Photographer, May 10, 1942 (Vol. 4, Issue 24)

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With photographs by Edward Weston on pp. 1541-1542.

The Complete Photographer, December 10, 1942 (Vol. 8, Issue 45)

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"Portrait Photography" by Edward Weston" (pp. 2935-2940).

The Complete Photographer, January 20, 1943 (Vol. 9, Issue 49)

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"Seeing Photographically" by Edward Weston (pp. 3200-3206).

The Complete Photographer, January 30, 1943 (Vol. 9, Issue 50)

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With photograph by Edward Weston on page 3255.

American Photography, December 1951 (Vol. 45, No. 12)

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"What is Photographic Beauty" by Edward Weston (pp. 738-743).

modern Photography, December 1953 (Vol. 17, No. 12)

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Color portfolio by Edward Weston with comments by Nancy Newhall. (pp. 54-59)

Great Photography Series 1: Studies of the Human Form by Two masters: John Rawlings and Edward Weston (Maco Magazine Corporation, New York), 1957

Periodicals with content about Weston, 1930-1980

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Items 8-18

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Touring Topics, June 1930 (Vol. 22, No. 6)

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"The Photography of Edward Weston" by Merle Armitage (Rotagravure Section) (Magazine + 4-pg supplement inserted between pp. 34-35).

Nature Magazine, March 1932 (Vol. 19, No. 3)

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"Beauty and the Vegetable: as caught by the searching lens of Edward Weston's Camera" by Richard W. Westwood (pp. 154-156).

The Camera: The Photographic Journal of America, September 1938 (Vol. 57, No. 3)

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"Edward Weston--A Word Portrait of the Man" by Thomas Welles (pp. 151-154).

Popular Photography, March 1946 (Vol. 18, No. 3)

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"Edward Weston in retrospect" by Beaumont Newhall (pp. 42-46).

modern Photography, June 1952 (Vol. 16, No. 6)

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"Edward Weston and the Nude" by Nancy Newhall (pp. 38-41, 107-110).

Image: Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House, September 1955 (Vol. IV, No. 6)

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"Edward Weston-Photographer" by John Upton (pp. 44-45).

Carmel Pacific Spectator Journal, January 1958 (Vol. 15, No. 1)

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"In Memoriam: Edward Weston" (pp. 23-26).

Image: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the George Eastman House, March, 1958 (No. 59)

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"Edward Weston" (pp. 50-51).

Camera, April, 1958 (No. 4)

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"Special Issue: Edward Weston."

U.S. Camera, May 1958 (Vol. 21, No. 5)

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"Edward Weston: Master Photographer" (pp. 66-68).

U.S. Camera, June 1958 (Vol. 21, No. 6)

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"Portrait of Weston" [Letter to the editor] (p. 6).

Items 19-37

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Image: The Bulletin of the George Eastman House of Photography, 1962 (Vol. 11, No. 1)

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"Weston Daybooks Published by Eastman House (pp. 1-2).

U.S. Camera, December 1962

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"Edward Weston: Tools and Techniques of the Greatest Craftsman" by Arthur Kramer (pp. 58-61, 88).

Infinity (American Society of Magazine Photographers), February 1964 (Vol. XIII, No. 2)

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"Edward Weston" by Ansel Adams (pp. 16-17, 25-27).

PSA Journal: Official Publication of the Photographic Society of America, March 1966 (Vol. 32, No. 3, Part One)

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"Edward Weston: Photographer" by Ansel Adams (pp. 24-26, 45).

modern Photography, May 1969 (Vol. 33, No. 5)

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"Edward Weston: Dedicated to Simplicity" by Cole Weston (pp. 66-71, 104).

U.S. Camera Annual 1971, 1970

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"Brett Weston" (pp. 126-129).

Westways, June 1970, Part One

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"Charis and Edward Weston's California and the West" by Lawrence Clark Powell (pp. 12-15, 60).

Westways, January 1973

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"Lady of Taos" by Lawrence Clark Powell with photographs by Edward Weston (pp. 50-53, 64-65).

Camera, February 1973 (No. 2)

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With photographs by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Brett Weston.

Petersen's Photographic Magazine, February 1973 (Vol. 1, No. 10)

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"Edward Weston: A Legend in his own Lifetime" by Glen Fishback (pp. 76-79).

Game & Gossip: Today & Yesterday on the Monterrey Peninsula, May 15, 1974 (Vol. 19, No. 4)

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"Photography…" [article on a gallery opened by Margaret Woodward Weston] (p. 12).

New York Magazine, February 24, 1975 (Vol. 8, No. 8)

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"Venus Beheaded: Weston and his Women" by Ben Maddow (pp. 44-53).

Creative Camera, April 1975 (Number 130)

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"Edward Weston" (pp. 124-135).

The Print Collector's Newsletter, July-August 1975 (Vol. VI, No. 3)

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"A Look at Edward Weston" by Charles W. Millard.

Art in America, July-August 1975

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"Edward Weston Rethought" by Andy Grundberg (pp. 29-31).

Westways, May 1976 (Vol. 68, No. 5)

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"Letters from the Southwest" by Lawrence Clark Powell with a photograph of G. Harold Powell by Edward Weston (pp. 22-25, 66-68).

Westways, August 1976 (Vol. 68, No. 8)

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"In Focus with Imogen Cunningham" by Judith Rich with photograph of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather on p. 20. (pp. 18-22, 72-73).

Westways, November 1977 (Vol. 69, No. 11)

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Small reference to Edward Weston in book review of Mabel: A Biography of Mabel Dodge Luhan (p. 62).

Photo Communique, May, June, July, August 1980 (Vol. 2, No. 2)

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Issue contains two photographs by Edward Weston: "Nude: Christel Gang" (1927) and "Portrait of Christel Gang" (1925) (pp. 12, 14).

Exhibition catalogs and miscellaneous, approximately 1950-1978

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Items 38 -54

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The Photographer: from a motion picture about Edward Weston, approximately 1950

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15-page booklet with commentary from the film The Photographer (1948) about Edward Weston written by Irving Jacoby.

The West: A Portfolio of Photographs, 1953

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Exhibit booklet with print reproductions, including Edward Weston, "Grass and Sea, Big Sur," (1937) and Brett Weston, "Mouth of Little Sur River" (1952), Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1953.

Creative Photography, 1956

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Exhibit booklet, Lexington Camera Club and the Department of Art, University of Kentucky, Lexington, including Brett Weston and Edward Weston.

Edward Weston: 74 Photographs, November-December 1956

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Exhibit booklet, Milwaukee Art Institute.

The Heritage of Edward Weston: an exhibition, a tribute, 1965

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Exhibit booklet, University of Oregon, January 12-February 7, 1965.

Edward Weston, 1966

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Exhibit booklet, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, May 13-June 26, 1966.

Fotografías de Edward Weston/Brett Weston, 1966

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Exhibit booklet, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico.

Photographs from the Coke Collection, Des Moines Art Center, 1970

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Exhibit booklet, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, August 10-September 13, 1970.

11 American Photographers, 1972

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Exhibit booklet, The Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., April 10-May 12, 1972.

Photograph 1: Edward Weston, George A Tice, W Eugene Smith, Lewis W. Hine, 1972

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Exhibit booklet, Cincinnati Art Club, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 11-18, 1972.

Photographer as Poet, 1973

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Exhibit booklet, The Arts Club of Chicago, January 10-February 10, 1973.

Landscape/Cityscape: A Selection of Twentieth-Century American Photographs, [1973-1974]

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Exhibit booklet and checklist by Phyllis Dearborn Massar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 13, 1973-January 6, 1974.

Aperture Books, [1974]

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Advertisement and Reproduction Print for Edward Weston: Fifty Years.

New Portfolios, 1976

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Exhibit booklet for photography exhibit including Brett Weston's "Portraits of My Father," Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College, November 4-December 12, 1976.

Edward Weston, 1977

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Exhibit booklet, Hayward Gallery, London, England, March 2-April 24, 1977.

Lines of Power, 1977

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Exhibit booklet, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, March 12-April 9, 1977.

Group f. 64, 1978

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Exhibit booklet, University of Missouri, St. Louis, April 3-30, 1978.

Edward Weston: Photographs and Papers (Guide Series Number Three, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona), 1980

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