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

Summary

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

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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

Related resources

Related material:

• Edward Weston Photograph Collection (Art Collections)
• Jack and Beverly Waltman Collection (photCL 553)
• Wilson, Charis. Journal of Guggenheim year, 1937, March 22-1939, April 24 (mssHM 51997)
• Wilson, Charis. Journal, letters and notes documenting the Whitman trip with Edward Weston, 1939-1996 (mssWilson, Charis journal)

Indexed terms

Subjects:

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

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:

Huntington Library, Rare Book Collections

1151 Oxford Road

San Marino, CA 91108, US

Contact:

(626) 405-2191

reference@huntington.org

Website

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

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

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

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With photograph by Edward Weston on page 3255.

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

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

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

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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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"Special Issue: Edward Weston."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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).

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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).

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

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

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

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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.

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

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Exhibit booklet, Milwaukee Art Institute.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Advertisement and Reproduction Print for Edward Weston: Fifty Years.

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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.

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

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

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

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