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Brett WestonAmerican Photographer · 1911–1993
All works by this person →Brett Weston's 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
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- around 1968
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Brett Weston saw something interesting in the most commonplace subjects, which he often transformed into abstract arrangements of pattern and texture in his prints. By moving in close to eliminate context, Weston de-emphasized the cultural significance of his often-humble subjects. Here, Weston played with the viewer's sense of three-dimensional space by focusing on a window with lace curtains and potted plants, and the reflection of a building from across the street. He positioned the camera in such a way that the flowers embroidered on the curtain appear to be sprouting from the pots sitting on the window's ledge. The reflection of the photographer's camera is seen in the lower right hand corner-a dark shape with rounded corners and a tripod leg that appears to jut from the plant container on the far right. The scene is easily recognizable, but it takes a moment to understand the relationship between the various parts. This sort of ambiguity is what makes Weston's photographs intriguing.
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