Brett Weston seemed destined from birth to become
one of our greatest American photographic artists. Born in Los
Angeles in 1911, the second son of photographer Edward Weston,
he had perhaps the closest artistic relationship with his famous
father of all four of the Weston sons. In 1925, Edward removed
Brett from school and took him to Mexico where the fourteen year
old became his father's apprentice. Surrounded by revolutionary
artists of the day, such as Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo and Diego
Rivera, and influenced as well by the striking contrast of life
in Mexico, it was there that Brett first began making photographs
with a small Graflex 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 camera.
< back to
artist
|
