GALLERY GONE WILD!!
I have so much to sell and need to get starting listing them!! It's going to be wild, and here is just a sample of what's to come!!
Brett Weston 1978 "Cracked Windshield" Signed 10.5"x13.25" Original Photograph
Signed and dated under the image, mounted to 15"x18" museum board.
This photo was in one of Brett's portfolios and has a stamp on the back "Portfolio Print #19". As you might know Brett, Ansel Adams, and most photographers would put their best images, and well printed photographs in their portfolios.
Brett Weston's (1911-1993) starkly beautiful photographs fall under the same conceptual framework as those of his famous father, the well-known American photographer Edward Weston. Both used large-format cameras, insisted on previsualizing final images before exposure, and produced immaculate prints.
Weston demonstrated his potential at an early age. He was thirteen years old when he began using his father's second camera, a Graflex, in 1924. At that time, he abandoned formal schooling and was living with his father and his father's mistress, Tina Modotti, in Mexico. By 1932, Weston had shown work alongside his father's in several high-profile exhibitions and had been given his first museum retrospective.
In the 1930s and '40s Brett Weston began to forge his own vision, which evolved into a seamless combination of the literal and the abstract. The 8-by-10-inch camera became his tool of choice. His early subjects were San Francisco and New York. These cityscapes playfully depict the architectural forms he came across, more than they record urban life. During the 1950s and beyond, Weston focused on the natural landscape, sometimes working side by side with his father to photograph sand dunes, boulders, and plants. Moving in close on subjects like broken glass or a weathered windowsill, Weston eliminated context in his pictures to invite abstraction.
On Brett Weston's 80th birthday he burned a few of his negatives for show, and over the following months destroyed all but a dozen or so of his negatives to underscore his belief that only the artist should print his own work.
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Please note that the actual image size is slightly different than the paper size listed above as this darkroom made photograph was handmade and may have required some custom cropping.
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