Written and Narrated By Sydney Lindquist Edward Weston Written and Narrated By Sydney Lindquist

Early Childhood Born in Highland Park, Illinois on March 24, 1886. Spent the majority of his childhood in Chicago, Illinois. Mother passed away when he was five; raised mainly by his sister, Mary. Studied in the Oakland Grammar School. Dropped out of school when he was 11 years old. Edward Weston’s father

First Camera At age 16, he received a Bull’s Eye Camera #2 from his father. His earliest photographs were at his aunt’s farm in Illinois and the parks in the surrounding area. In April 1906, he published his first photograph; Spring Chicago in Camera and Dark Room Weston with his 5x7 inch view camera. Kodak Bullseye #2

Edward Weston, Portrait of Ruth St. Denis, 1916 Career Begins In 1906, Weston moved to California. Attended Illinois School of photography in 1907. In 1908, moved back to California to Los Angeles. In 1909, he married his sister’s friend, Flora May Chandler. In 1911, he opened his first studio. Used “Pictorialist style” Flora Chandler Edward Weston, Portrait of Ruth St. Denis, 1916 Weston, 1911

Turning Point Edward Weston, Middletown, 1922 The following are quotes taken directly from Weston’s own journals. “The Middletown visit was something to remember with auto drives through the hills and dales of Miami Valley, all resplendent in autumn colors, and over the river into Kentucky, to Dayton and Cincinnati too. But most of all in importance was my photographing of “Armco,” the great plant and giant stacks of the American Rolling Mill Co. That day I made great photographs, even (photographer Alfred) Stieglitz thought they were important! The reunion with Sis and family was all the more than I had hoped for. John’s interest in my work was outstanding and deeply appreciated by me. It was his desire to help me on to New York.” “(In New York) I took my work to show Stieglitz. He laid it open to attack, and then discarded print after print, prints I loved. Yet I am happy, for I gained in strength, in fact strengthening my own opinion. I was ripe to change, was changing, yes changed, when I went to New York, had been showered with praise with meant very little to me, for all the time I knew I was showing my past.” Edward Weston,  Middletown, 1922