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Edward Weston

1886 - 1958

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Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was an American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his 40-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still lifes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes, and even whimsical parodies. It is said that he developed a "quintessentially American, and especially Californian, approach to modern photography" because of his focus on the people and places of the American West. In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 × 10 view camera. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Weston is the 49th most popular photographer (down from 34th in 2019), the 3,547th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,575th in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Edward Weston ranks 49 out of 148Before him are Andreas Gursky, Jan Saudek, Philippe Halsman, Daidō Moriyama, Inge Morath, and Gisèle Freund. After him are Claude Cahun, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Paul Strand, Josef Sudek, Gustav Klutsis, and Cecil Beaton.

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Among people born in 1886, Edward Weston ranks 113Before him are Victor Boin, Princess Patricia of Connaught, Salvatore Maranzano, Ernst Robert Curtius, Mohammed Ben Aarafa, and Ferenc Münnich. After him are André Marty, Delmira Agustini, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, Charlie Ruggles, Kurt Schmitt, and Toivo Mikael Kivimäki. Among people deceased in 1958, Edward Weston ranks 68Before him are Viktor Schauberger, José Miaja, The Boswell Sisters, Joseph Klausner, Vítězslav Nezval, and Ronald Colman. After him are Claire Lee Chennault, Florian Znaniecki, Slobodan Jovanović, Frédéric François-Marsal, Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria, and Yutaka Taniyama.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward Weston ranks 3,547 out of 20,380Before him are Michael Parks (1940), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Laurie Anderson (1947), Philip Sheridan (1831), Charles Napier (1936), and Andrew Garfield (1983). After him are Thelma Ritter (1902), William Cranch Bond (1789), Benny Golson (1929), Paul Robeson (1898), Rebbie Jackson (1950), and Brooke Adams (1949).

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United States

Among photographers born in United States, Edward Weston ranks 13Before him are Carl Van Vechten (1880), Nan Goldin (1953), William Klein (1928), Robert Mapplethorpe (1946), Berenice Abbott (1898), and Lewis Hine (1874). After him are Paul Strand (1890), Sean Flynn (1941), Wilson Bentley (1865), Herb Ritts (1952), Gertrude Käsebier (1852), and Imogen Cunningham (1883).