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Compiled and Edited by Richard
J. Rinehart,
2004
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Born March 24, in
Highland Park, Illinois.
Parents: Dr. Edward Burbank Weston - Obstetrician
Alice Jeanette Brett - Shakespearean Actress
Edward's mother dies. He is raised by his sister May.
Mother's dying wish is that he become a businessman
and not an educator or doctor in the family tradition.
Attends Oakland Grammar School in Chicago.
August 20: Given first camera by his father while summering
on his aunt's farm in Michigan.
Camera type: Kodak Bulls - Eye No. 2 3.5" x 3.5" format
(12 exposures).
Drops out of school never to return. Works for three
years as an errand boy and a salesman for his Uncle
Theodore at Marshall Field & Company in Chicago.
First Photograph published in the April issue of
Camera and Darkroom. Photograph: "Spring 1903"
May 29: Arrives in Tropico, California to visit his
sister May. California becomes his home for the rest of
his life.
Hired as a surveyor by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and
Salt Lake Railroad for $15 a week.
Quits railroad job to become itinerant professional
photographer. Photographs children, pets and funerals
door to door.
Attends Illinois College of Photography in Effingham, Illinois
for 6-months. Learns darkroom techniques he uses for the
rest of his life.
Returns to California and works as a retoucher
for George Steckel Portrait Studio in Los Angeles
January 30: Marries Flora May Chandler.
Quits George Steckel and is hired by Louis A. Mojoiner
Portrait Studio in Los Angeles. Works as a negative
retoucher and photographer. Demonstrates outstanding
ability at lighting and posing.
April 26: First son, Edward Chandler Weston born.
Builds first photographic studio for $600 on Brand Blvd.
in Tropico Ca. This will be his base of operation for the
next two decades.
December 16: Second son, Theodore Brett Weston born.
Meets Margrethe Mather in Tropico studio. Mather becomes
his studio assistant and most frequent model for the next decade.
Begins to submit work to National and International Photography
Salons. Gains a reputation for high key portraits and modern
dance studies. By the end of the decade he wins more than
30 awards.
Begins keeping journals that come to be known as the "Daybooks."
December 6: Third son, Lawrence Neil Weston born.
Elected to the London Salon of Photography. Acknowledged
as the highest honor in pictorialism. Of its 37 members only 6
are from the United States and Edward is the only member on the
west coast.
Meets photographer, Johan Hagemeyer in his Tropico Studio.
Hagemeyer becomes part time studio assistant for six months.
Becomes close friend for more than a decade.
January 30: Fourth son Cole Weston born.
Meets Tina Modotti, Ramiel McGehee, Miriam Lerner
and other members of the Los Angeles art community.
Ceases submitting work to photographic salons as he makes
his transition to modernism.
First Transitional Photographs:
"Epilogue"
"Prologue to a Sad Spring"
Attic Series: Experiments with cubist, abstract angles of models
attics. Utilizes advancing and receding light as a subject.
Important photographs from series:
"Ramiel in His Attic, 1921"
"The Ascent on Attic Angles, 1921"
"Sunny Corner in An Attic, 1921"
Margrethe Mather becomes equal partner in Tropico studio.
Portraits dated and signed by both Weston and Mather. Only
time in photography career Weston shares credit.
Tina Modotti becomes primary model and lover.
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