Getty Museum

Betty Katz, Los Angeles

Date

1920

Medium

Palladium print

Culture

American

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

Object ID

8f04727a-3459-40c3-b957-ba1bae96df48

> In 1920 Edward Weston began a series of pictures of Betty Katz (later Brandner, 1865-1982), who was introduced to Weston by his colleague Margrethe Mather (1886-1952). Weston and Katz engaged in a brief affair in October 1920, when he made this and several other images of her in her attic and out on a balcony (see [85.XM.170.2](http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/53486/edward-weston-betty-brandner-american-1920/), [85.XM.170.9](http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/53493/edward-weston-betty-in-her-attic-american-1920/), [85.XM.170.8](http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/53492/edward-weston-betty-katz-los-angeles-american-1920/), [85.XM.170.10](http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/53494/edward-weston-betty-katz-los-angeles-american-1920/), [85.XM.170.11](http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/53495/edward-weston-betty-katz-los-angeles-american-1920/), [85.XM.170.12](http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/53496/edward-weston-betty-katz-los-angeles-american-1920/)). With its soft focus, this particular portrait is Pictorialist in style compared to the more experimental images Weston made of Katz that are Modernist in their self-conscious handling of space and form. > > Adapted from Brett Abbott. *Edward Weston*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005), 20. ©2005, J. Paul Getty Trust; and getty.edu, Interpretive Content, 2008. > >

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