Brett Weston: Voyage of the Eye (Aperture; 1992)

Theodore Brett Weston (December 16, 1911 – January 22, 1993) was an American photographer.Weston was the second of the four sons of photographer Edward Weston and Flora Chandler. He began taking photographs in 1925, while living in Mexico with Tina Modotti and his father. 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's earliest images from the 1920s reflect his intuitive sophisticated sense of abstraction. 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. He began photographing the dunes at Oceano, California, in the early 1930s. This eventually became a favorite location of his father Edward and later shared with Brett's third wife Dody Weston Thompson. Brett preferred the high gloss papers and ensuing sharp clarity of the gelatin silver photographic materials of the Group f/64 rather than the platinum matte photographic papers common in the 1920s and encouraged Edward Weston to explore the new silver papers in his own work. Brett Weston was credited by photography historian Beaumont Newhall as the first photographer to make negative space the subject of a photograph. (source: Wikipedia) Whether it is an Alaskan glacier far away or shreds of broken glass inches from the camera, Brett Weston's images are composed of patterns from the natural and man-made world. This book is a testament to the photographer's 65 years of evolving vision and includes 100 of his photographs. Afterword By Beaumont Newhall. Includes Bibliographical References.