Edward Weston
American Photographer · 1886–1958
111 works on LinkedCulture
> To clearly express my feeling for life with photographic beauty, present objectively the texture, rhythm, form in nature, without subterfuge or evasion in technique or spirit, to record the quintessence of the object or element before my lens, rather than an interpretation, a superficial phase, or passing mood--this is my way in photography. It is not an easy way. > > --Edward Weston In the spri
Works

A.
Getty Museum · negative 1925; print about 1953

Album "C"
Getty Museum · about 1910

Armco Steel
Getty Museum · 1922

Arms and Shins
Getty Museum · negative 1933; print about 1953

Artichoke (84.XP.912.1)
Getty Museum · 1930

Back
Getty Museum · negative 1925; print about 1953

Back and Arms
Getty Museum · negative 1936; print about 1953
![[Backyard decorated for dinner party with paper lanterns and table settings]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/2e808c89-6980-4567-a1bb-2d0d0f60432d/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Backyard decorated for dinner party with paper lanterns and table settings]
Getty Museum · about 1902–1911

Bananas
Getty Museum · 1930
![[Bench] / [Comics, Elliot Point]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/ca25b422-2cf5-42c4-973e-3c2f145f8ef5/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Bench] / [Comics, Elliot Point]
Getty Museum · 1944

Breast and Leg
Getty Museum · negative 1935; print about 1953

Breasts and Crossed Arms
Getty Museum · negative 1933; print about 1953
![[Bungalow, Tropico]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/0a1e8700-5e08-4cff-9087-3dc53f7c80b0/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Bungalow, Tropico]
Getty Museum · about 1906
![[Bungalow, Tropico, with windmill at rear]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/db88b8a5-f282-47c3-bfec-bb99c6fd67f5/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Bungalow, Tropico, with windmill at rear]
Getty Museum · about 1906
![[Bust of Brett with long shadow against wall]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/4f6ac49c-8573-4549-9849-989e1314fabb/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Bust of Brett with long shadow against wall]
Getty Museum · about 1919

Can she bring it down
Getty Museum · early July 1907
![[Cat standing in cat door]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d40384f0-da69-4093-a55e-c6f1620a841b/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Cat standing in cat door]
Getty Museum · n.d.

Chandler and Brett Weston
Getty Museum · 1920

Chandler in his Shop.
Getty Museum · 1920

Chandler Weston
Getty Museum · 1920

Chandler Weston
Getty Museum · 1912

Chicago Art Institute
Getty Museum · 1906

Church Door, Hornitos
Getty Museum · 1940
![[Church, Tropico]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/a5ed5380-485f-4adf-8846-bdaadfc857c2/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Church, Tropico]
Getty Museum · about 1906
![[Church, Tropico]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/62c3e382-1bd6-41d4-9112-d0637b4523b7/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Church, Tropico]
Getty Museum · about 1906

Cole Weston
Getty Museum · 1925

Crouching Figure
Getty Museum · negative 1933; print about 1953

Cypresses, Point Lobos
Getty Museum · negative 1947; print about 1953

Dancer
Getty Museum · negative 1939; print about 1953

Dancer and Ferns
Getty Museum · negative 1939; print about 1953

Dancer on Dune
Getty Museum · negative 1939; print about 1953
![[Dune, Oceano]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/99b8d951-0e28-4534-bee9-201063f79fbe/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Dune, Oceano]
Getty Museum · 1936

Dune, Oceano
Getty Museum · negative 1936; print about 1953
![[Edward Weston and His First California Home at Tropico]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/f544905d-0cfc-4287-9b49-a7de48db40e3/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Edward Weston and His First California Home at Tropico]
Getty Museum · 1907
![[Edward Weston and His First California Home at Tropico]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/94379d32-ce99-474b-b26f-99dcfe14b15d/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Edward Weston and His First California Home at Tropico]
Getty Museum · 1907
![[Edward Weston with Camera on a Short Tripod]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/7998763a-6103-4b1e-b67c-fdfd86f38a0b/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Edward Weston with Camera on a Short Tripod]
Getty Museum · about 1915
![[Elderly Native American woman seated on sidewalk]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/db1397c0-9314-4379-b982-c3117c77f093/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Elderly Native American woman seated on sidewalk]
Getty Museum · 1906
![[Elderly Native American woman seated on sidewalk]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/bd99956c-3890-4244-8da7-ec7ffdfc8753/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Elderly Native American woman seated on sidewalk]
Getty Museum · 1906
![[Elderly woman seated on porch steps, strewn with roses]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/342983de-15ea-4959-b4a0-62d721e1158c/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Elderly woman seated on porch steps, strewn with roses]
Getty Museum · about 1902–1911

Eroded Rock and Pebbles, Point Lobos
Getty Museum · 1930

Feet
Getty Museum · 1934

Feet and Hand
Getty Museum · negative 1934; print about 1953

Flora and Neil Weston
Getty Museum · 1917
![Flora [at Vanity]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/f49079c8-361b-4b2d-90d7-c2d12e961c4c/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Flora [at Vanity]
Getty Museum · 1909

Flora Chandler Weston
Getty Museum · 1909

Flora Weston
Getty Museum · 1918
![[Flora Weston (?) with mantilla, by window]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/3025ced0-7b6c-4ebb-a469-535272142894/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Flora Weston (?) with mantilla, by window]
Getty Museum · about 1912
![[Flora with hands behind head]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/aaf5cbb0-1f52-4a35-a86e-643cee7fbb7c/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Flora with hands behind head]
Getty Museum · 1909
![Franciscano [Detail of a José Clemente Orozco mural in the Preparatoria, Mexico City]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/098a6e27-7678-4a3f-9464-149126ee550a/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Franciscano [Detail of a José Clemente Orozco mural in the Preparatoria, Mexico City]
Getty Museum · negative 1926; print probably early 1930s

Friends Made Coming West
Getty Museum · 1906
![[Garnet Hall]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/21bc06cc-c34f-4312-8e3a-331de51a55ce/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Garnet Hall]
Getty Museum · 1908
![[Glendale, California from above]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/28d2477a-f69e-49cb-ad64-51250afa506f/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Glendale, California from above]
Getty Museum · about 1911
![Gretchen [Flora on a swing]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/5c61c42c-1cfc-4804-af6b-21037561b723/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
Gretchen [Flora on a swing]
Getty Museum · early July 1907

Hips
Getty Museum · negative 1934; print about 1953

Hombres Sedientos (Detail of a José Clemente Orozco mural in Preparatoria, Mexico City)
Getty Museum · about 1930

Honeymoon Trip.
Getty Museum · 1909
![[House]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/8e96d2e1-fa29-4bbf-99dd-27c4d8f4fa5f/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[House]
Getty Museum · about 1902–1911
![[House with garden, lean-to porch]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d41256bd-d2a4-43f5-ba7c-c26deebbc550/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[House with garden, lean-to porch]
Getty Museum · about 1911

Igor Stravinsky
Getty Museum · 1935

Imogen Cunningham
Getty Museum · 1922
![[Interior of bungalow with two photographs on the back wall]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/e2a41df4-8f33-4871-997e-da3d0c663960/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Interior of bungalow with two photographs on the back wall]
Getty Museum · about 1910

Kelp on Tide Pool, Point Lobos
Getty Museum · 1944

Kelp on Tide Pool, Point Lobos
Getty Museum · 1939

Kelp, Point Lobos
Getty Museum · negative 1934; print about 1953

Knees of a Dancer
Getty Museum · negative 1927; print about 1953
![[Landscape]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/02846592-3dfd-4310-92d0-a0cb6fc90f66/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Landscape]
Getty Museum · 1906
![[Landscape with skull]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/c43400c3-7764-48fc-a46c-929bfaae19e6/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Landscape with skull]
Getty Museum · about 1909
![[Man beating his cane on door labelled "Positively No Admittance"]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/452fba2b-9aad-4d58-b73d-af4cd683302f/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Man beating his cane on door labelled "Positively No Admittance"]
Getty Museum · n.d.
![[May Weston with bow and rocks]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/5c738c80-3365-4315-bf5f-15da6951573c/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[May Weston with bow and rocks]
Getty Museum · about 1915
![[Nell Cole]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/c5a031e6-bbcd-4841-ae29-16230c08e1e0/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Nell Cole]
Getty Museum · about 1906
![[Nell Cole]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/0d3d3e63-19d8-4e2a-8a8d-a7267be2dff9/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Nell Cole]
Getty Museum · about 1906
![[Nell Cole on horseback]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/5a8ca58e-7f01-4384-be99-f95db828ce95/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Nell Cole on horseback]
Getty Museum · about 1906

Nude, Bertha Wardell (86.XM.710.2)
Getty Museum · 1927

Nude, Charis Wilson (84.XM.1381.1)
Getty Museum · 1936

Nude, Flora Chandler Weston (86.XM.719.13)
Getty Museum · negative 1909; print 1910

Of Neil
Getty Museum · negative 1925; print about 1953
![[Old woman in tattered clothes walking with stick]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/ea7e6375-349c-41ef-8ea6-84018e841ccf/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Old woman in tattered clothes walking with stick]
Getty Museum · 1906

"Our Nest"
Getty Museum · early July 1907

Paul Jordan-Smith
Getty Museum · 1922

Paul Jordan-Smith
Getty Museum · 1918

Peaches
Getty Museum · about 1915

Piano, Meraux Plantation House, Louisiana (85.XM.180)
Getty Museum · 1941

Portrait of My Son.
Getty Museum · 1915

Pyramid of Teopanzolco, Cuernavaca (85.XM.244)
Getty Museum · 1924

Ranchmen
Getty Museum · 1905

Ranchmen
Getty Museum · 1905

Reaching Figure
Getty Museum · negative 1933; print about 1953
![[Rock, Point Lobos]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/5310df06-7798-4cc1-ad77-8556f0b59454/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Rock, Point Lobos]
Getty Museum · 1935

Sand, Carmel
Getty Museum · 1932

Sand Dunes, Oceano
Getty Museum · 1936

Sand Dunes, Oceano, California (85.XM.215)
Getty Museum · 1934
![[Santa Monica Bay, with pier, from Huntington Pallisades]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/33fe1759-eefd-4789-8f21-61e7d1958bc6/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Santa Monica Bay, with pier, from Huntington Pallisades]
Getty Museum · about 1910
![[Self-portrait]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/8e09f62c-35fc-4cb9-b512-a8993b25d4a2/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Self-portrait]
Getty Museum · 1910–1911

Self Portrait with Camera (86.XM.719.3)
Getty Museum · 1908
![[Shell]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d06d3f3a-2b3d-4046-ab81-d9aca2a71949/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Shell]
Getty Museum · negative 1927; print about 1980

Shell
Getty Museum · negative 1927; print about 1980

Shells
Getty Museum · negative 1927; print about 1953
![[Sitting room]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/e5febaa9-6db4-432e-b898-bec3e5f243b8/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Sitting room]
Getty Museum · about 1902–1911

Sleeping Girl
Getty Museum · negative 1935; print about 1953

Standing Torso
Getty Museum · negative 1925; print about 1953

Surf and Rocks, Point Lobos
Getty Museum · negative 1938; print about 1953

Tina, Glendale.
Getty Museum · negative 1921; print about 1930–1939

Toadstools.
Getty Museum · 1931

Tomato Field, Big Sur
Getty Museum · June 30, 1937

Torso
Getty Museum · negative 1933; print about 1953

Torso
Getty Museum · negative 1925; print about 1953
![[Tropico, California from above]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/05eb63a6-f69f-402a-b302-f89ac24b1994/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Tropico, California from above]
Getty Museum · about 1911
![[Tropico Grammar School]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/168fe16a-5b42-44a6-b672-090982632f99/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Tropico Grammar School]
Getty Museum · 1906

Two Shells (88.XM.56)
Getty Museum · negative 1927; print about 1933
![[Woman in Evening Gown]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/36518887-465c-4340-9a8b-8e56e6a02065/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Woman in Evening Gown]
Getty Museum · 1922
![[Woman tending baby]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/0ce85535-2501-4834-b8e3-b8168d44ce6b/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Woman tending baby]
Getty Museum · n.d.