![]() ![]() This was a favorite location of his father Edward and a location that they later shared Brett's with wife Dody Weston Thompson. He began photographing the dunes at Oceano, California, in the early 1930s. He often flattened the plane, engaging in layered space, an artistic style more commonly seen among the Abstract Expressionists and more modern painters like David Hockney than other photographers. Weston's earliest images from the 1920s reflect his intuitive sophisticated sense of abstraction. He began showing his photographs with Edward Weston in 1927, was featured at the international exhibition at Film und Foto in Germany at age 17, and mounted his first one-man museum retrospective at age 21 at the De Young Museum in San Francisco in January, 1932. Weston began taking photographs in 1925, while living in Mexico with Tina Modotti and his father. Van Deren Coke described Brett Weston as the "child genius of American photography." He was the second of the four sons of photographer Edward Weston and Flora Chandler. If I a made a bit money at the end of the day, it would be a bonus.Brett Weston (originally Theodore Brett Weston December 16, 1911, Los Angeles–January 22, 1993, Hawaii) was an American photographer. Ideally it would be the freedom to be constantly taking photos and having an excuse to tear round the globe. I always wanted to travel and I always loved drawing/photography, and thus always had it in my mind I would try and do something that would enable me to do both. Where do you want to end up in terms of work? If a photo turns out a certain way, it is usually totally by accident. Obviously every photo is personal to me in some way, but it is the need to try and grab a single moment or feeling which is far more exciting. But I rarely set out to make a photo mean something, in that thinking process it becomes a contrived meaning. I don’t think my view of my pictures should be the correct one, the best thing about art is that people invest their own meaning into it. I find it weird when people ask me what a photo means, and if they do, I always lie and say it is about sex. I definitely am not a ‘dark’ person, I am stupidly optimistic about most things to be honest. It is the spontaneity which is the most important, the unplanned which always work best. The best time to photograph someone is when they have had barely any sleep and look rough as hell, because at least then you are getting them, not something that is planned. They make nice photos, but nothing that is going to make you stop and stare. To be honest smiley people don’t make good photos. I wouldn’t say I set out to be dark, but maybe it is an aesthetic. I wish I could claim to have some desperately murky past to make me seem far more interesting, but yeah it was pretty normal. ![]() Your images are all quite dark, can you tell us a little about that? It stresses me out to leave the house without a camera. But yeah I have always been doodling and painting, taking photos has become more and more of an obsession. No, I was a massive drawer, and spent much of my childhood obsessively drawing dragons, I was always that peculiar kid in the library reading the hobbit slightly too obsessively. Most of my friends have become immune to having a camera shoved in their face. Now I take photos as an addict, I need a camera on me and I constantly need to think about the next photo. Without him I would still be stuck potatoshoping photos to death, he forced me to think about the actual taking of the photo rather than slapping on the photoshop. I need to mention the photographer Brett Walker, who has undoubtably shaped my work, the man is an absolute genius, and has been mentoring me for the last few years. ![]() Flickr helped a lot though, I couldn’t have really asked for a better source of inspiration, which is being constantly updated. I can’t quite remember why, but it resulted in lots of shit photos of flowers, dogs, old people, and street signs. ![]()
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