에드워드 웨스턴

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에드워드 헨리 웨스턴 은 미국 사진가이자 그룹 F/64의 공동 창설자였다. 그의 작품 대부분은 8x10인치 뷰 카메라로 촬영되었다. ‘’뉴욕 타임즈’‘ 신문은 2008년 4월 14일 소더비 경매에서 그의 사진이 뉴욕의 예술품 구매자에게 160만 달러에 팔렸다고 보도했다.

Edward Henry Weston was an American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his 40-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still lifes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes, and even whimsical parodies. It is said that he developed a "quintessentially American, and especially Californian, approach to modern photography" because of his focus on the people and places of the American West. In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 × 10 view camera. Some of his most famous photographs were taken of the trees and rocks at Point Lobos, California, near where he lived for many years.