Edward Weston's image
My recreated image "The apple"
Artist Statement- For the photos of the apples above, I recreated this photo by having my mom hold the apple in the same position as Edward's photo. This one was the hardest out of all of them because the lighting was very shiny and bright, so I tried to have my mom stand by the window. I also had her put her ring on her right hand instead of her left because thats where the ring was in Edward's photo.
Edward Weston's Image
My recreated photo "Shadows"
Artist Statement- For the photos above with the peppers. I recreated this photo by placing a pepper on a bed so that the background of the sheets would be similar. I think that these two pictures look a lot alike, and I'm very proud of it. I think that the lighting on the pepper is also in the same spots.
Edward Weston's image
My recreated Image "The Pumpkin"
Artist Statement- For the pumpkins above, think the pumpkin pictures also came out nice. I luckily found the same kind of pumpkin that weston took a picture of.Then I turned the picture black an white because no cameras had color back then. I also set up a black background by using paper to try and match Edward's photo.
Edward Weston Photographer Research Information
He spent most of his childhood attending Oakland Grammar school in Chicago. He began photographing at age 16 when received a Bull’s Eye #2 camera from his father. Weston moved to California and went door to door photographing children, pets, and funerals. Realizing he needed formal training, in 1908 Weston returned east and attended the Illinois College of Photography in Effingham, Illinois. In 6 months, he finished a 12-month course. Weston got married to Flora, and they had 4 children: Theodore, Brett, Neil, and Cole. Then he opened up his own portrait studio in Tropico California. A small pebble beach got named after him when he died.
Edward Weston’s work is all in black and white because the photos were taken when there was no color in photos. And also it makes the photo have a dark feeling to them because it’s dark with a lot of contrast. Edward Weston likes to take pictures of things really zoomed in, or in odd places, or shapes. He doesn’t like to take pictures of normal things. It has to have a weird design or in a deformed shape, etc.
His aim for his pictures was to give new meanings to boring or dull objects. For example his famous picture of the pepper that is deformed, he took an everyday object that most people would throw away, and took pictures of it to portray its “beauty”. His goal was to let people have another view at different/weird objects. I think that the photos were personal to him because it shows that he is caring and doesn’t judge a book by it’s cover. And that you don’t have to be perfect to be in a photo.
He has influenced me because this time when I went to go take pictures, I didn’t look for the most perfect images. I just found an image that would work. Because you don’t need perfect objects to take photos, you just need an object. That is what I learned the most while researching about him. When I took my photos of the pepper, pumpkin, and apple, I picked one that wasn’t perfect because I think he is trying to portray that you don’t need to be perfect to be in a photo.
Edward Weston’s work is all in black and white because the photos were taken when there was no color in photos. And also it makes the photo have a dark feeling to them because it’s dark with a lot of contrast. Edward Weston likes to take pictures of things really zoomed in, or in odd places, or shapes. He doesn’t like to take pictures of normal things. It has to have a weird design or in a deformed shape, etc.
His aim for his pictures was to give new meanings to boring or dull objects. For example his famous picture of the pepper that is deformed, he took an everyday object that most people would throw away, and took pictures of it to portray its “beauty”. His goal was to let people have another view at different/weird objects. I think that the photos were personal to him because it shows that he is caring and doesn’t judge a book by it’s cover. And that you don’t have to be perfect to be in a photo.
He has influenced me because this time when I went to go take pictures, I didn’t look for the most perfect images. I just found an image that would work. Because you don’t need perfect objects to take photos, you just need an object. That is what I learned the most while researching about him. When I took my photos of the pepper, pumpkin, and apple, I picked one that wasn’t perfect because I think he is trying to portray that you don’t need to be perfect to be in a photo.