http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8154ng6 No online items Edward Weston periodical collection: Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Diann Benti. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Rare Books Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2191 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org © 2015 The Huntington Library. All rights reserved. Edward Weston periodical 645289 1 collection: Finding Aid Overview of the Collection Title: Edward Weston periodical collection Dates (inclusive): 1930-1980 Bulk dates: 1950-1980 Collection Number: 645289 Creator: Waltman, Jack, collector.Waltman, Beverly, collector. Extent: 55 items in 3 boxes. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Rare Books Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2191 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org Abstract: This collection contains fifty-five magazines, exhibition catalogs, brochures, and other printed material related to the career and life of Edward Weston (1886-1958), a pioneering 20th-century American photographer known for his exploration of form in landscapes, still lifes, and nudes. The collection includes published writings by and about Weston; publications containing his photographs; exhibition catalogs and brochures that feature his work and his contemporaries; as well as later tributes and articles about the photographer. Language: English. Access Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services. Publication Rights The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Edward Weston periodical collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Provenance The Photographer: from a motion picture about Edward Weston was received as the gift of Jack and Beverly Waltman, August 2014; all other items are the gift of Jack and Beverly Waltman, March 2015. Biographical Note Edward Weston (1886-1958) was a pioneering 20th-century American photographer known for his exploration of form in landscapes, still lifes, and nudes. Weston was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 24, 1886, and later moved to the Los Angeles, California, area, where he opened a portrait studio in 1911. Weston moved to Northern California in 1929 and began taking photographs of the region including many in the Point Lobos area near Carmel. In the 1930s, Weston participated in numerous exhibitions and was involved with other California photographers including Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, John Paul Edwards, Sonya Noskowiak, Henry Swift, and Weston's apprentice Willard Van Dyke, with whom Weston founded the Group f/64 photography group in 1932. In 1937, Weston became the first photographer awarded a Guggenheim Foundation grant, and he published his first book of photographs, Seeing California with Edward Weston, in 1939. In the early 1940s, Weston selected and printed 500 of his photographs as a gift to the Huntington Library. Weston was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1947 and stopped taking photographs a year later. Weston died on January 1, 1958. One of Weston's sons, Brett Weston (1911-1993), became a photographer and often collaborated with his father. Scope and Content This collection contains fifty-five magazines, exhibition catalogs, brochures, and other printed material related to the career and life of American photographer Edward Weston. The collection includes published writings by and about Edward Weston; publications containing his photographs; exhibition catalogs and brochures that feature his work and his contemporaries; as well as later tributes and articles about the photographer. The materials also include information about Group f64 and some of the items also focus on the photography of Weston's son Brett Weston. Edward Weston periodical 645289 2 collection: Finding Aid Within the collection, there are seven periodicals with content by Weston, including three essays by Weston about photography in The Complete Photographer and American Photography. The twenty-nine periodicals with content about Weston include articles in photography journals, as well as popular magazines such as Westways, and vary from profiles of Weston to brief mentions of his work or articles accompanied by Weston's photographs. • Edward Weston Photograph Collection (Art Collections) • Jack and Beverly Waltman Collection (photCL 553) • Wilson, Charis. Journal of Guggenheim year, 1937, March 22-1939, April 24 (mssHM 51997) • Wilson, Charis. Journal, letters and notes documenting the Whitman trip with Edward Weston, 1939-1996 (mssWilson, Charis journal) Arrangement The materials are organized in 3 series: • Periodicals with content by Weston (Items 1-7) • Periodicals with content about Weston (Items 8-37) • Exhibition catalogs and miscellaneous (Items 38-55) Within the series, items are arranged chronologically. Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Huntington Library's Online Catalog. Subjects Weston, Brett. Weston, Brett -- Exhibitions. Weston, Edward, 1886-1958. Weston, Edward, 1886-1958 -- Exhibitions. Group f.64. Photographers -- California -- Biography. Photography, Artistic -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Photography -- Periodicals. Forms/Genres Exhibition Catalogs -- United States -- 20th century. Magazines (periodicals). Periodicals. Photographers Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984, photographer. Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991, photographer. Bernhard, Ruth, photographer. Gagliani, Oliver, photographer. Gilpin, Henry, 1922-2011, photographer. Garnett, William, 1916-2006, photographer. Evans, Walker, 1903-1975, photographer. McSavaney, Ray, photographer. Sexton, John, 1953-, photographer. Weston, Brett, photographer. Weston, Edward, 1886-1958, photographer. Container List Periodicals with content by Weston, 1942/1957 Edward Weston periodical 645289 3 collection: Finding Aid Container List Periodicals with content by Weston, 1942/1957 Box 1 Items 1-7 Item 1 The Complete Photographer, May 10, 1942 (Vol. 4, Issue 24) With photographs by Edward Weston on pp. 1541-1542. Item 2 The Complete Photographer, December 10, 1942 (Vol. 8, Issue 45) "Portrait Photography" by Edward Weston" (pp. 2935-2940). Item 3 The Complete Photographer, January 20, 1943 (Vol. 9, Issue 49) "Seeing Photographically" by Edward Weston (pp. 3200-3206). Item 4 The Complete Photographer, January 30, 1943 (Vol. 9, Issue 50) With photograph by Edward Weston on page 3255. Item 5 American Photography, December 1951 (Vol. 45, No. 12) "What is Photographic Beauty" by Edward Weston (pp. 738-743). Item 6 modern Photography, December 1953 (Vol. 17, No. 12) Color portfolio by Edward Weston with comments by Nancy Newhall. (pp. 54-59) Item 7 Great Photography Series 1: Studies of the Human Form by Two masters: John Rawlings and Edward Weston (Maco Magazine Corporation, New York), 1957 Periodicals with content about Weston, 1930-1980 Box 1 Items 8-18 Item 8 Touring Topics, June 1930 (Vol. 22, No. 6) "The Photography of Edward Weston" by Merle Armitage (Rotagravure Section) (Magazine + 4-pg supplement inserted between pp. 34-35). Item 9 Nature Magazine, March 1932 (Vol. 19, No. 3) "Beauty and the Vegetable: as caught by the searching lens of Edward Weston's Camera" by Richard W. Westwood (pp. 154-156). Item 10 The Camera: The Photographic Journal of America, September 1938 (Vol. 57, No. 3) "Edward Weston--A Word Portrait of the Man" by Thomas Welles (pp. 151-154). Item 11 Popular Photography, March 1946 (Vol. 18, No. 3) "Edward Weston in retrospect" by Beaumont Newhall (pp. 42-46). Item 12 modern Photography, June 1952 (Vol. 16, No. 6) "Edward Weston and the Nude" by Nancy Newhall (pp. 38-41, 107-110). Item 13 Image: Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House, September 1955 (Vol. IV, No. 6) "Edward Weston-Photographer" by John Upton (pp. 44-45). Item 14 Carmel Pacific Spectator Journal, January 1958 (Vol. 15, No. 1) "In Memoriam: Edward Weston" (pp. 23-26). Item 15 Image: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the George Eastman House, March, 1958 (No. 59) "Edward Weston" (pp. 50-51). Edward Weston periodical 645289 4 collection: Finding Aid Container List Periodicals with content about Weston, 1930-1980 Item 16 Camera, April, 1958 (No. 4) "Special Issue: Edward Weston." Item 17 U.S. Camera, May 1958 (Vol. 21, No. 5) "Edward Weston: Master Photographer" (pp. 66-68). Item 18 U.S. Camera, June 1958 (Vol. 21, No. 6) "Portrait of Weston" [Letter to the editor] (p. 6). Box 2 Items 19-37 Item 19 Image: The Bulletin of the George Eastman House of Photography, 1962 (Vol. 11, No. 1) "Weston Daybooks Published by Eastman House (pp. 1-2). Item 20 U.S. Camera, December 1962 "Edward Weston: Tools and Techniques of the Greatest Craftsman" by Arthur Kramer (pp. 58-61, 88). Item 21 Infinity (American Society of Magazine Photographers), February 1964 (Vol. XIII, No. 2) "Edward Weston" by Ansel Adams (pp. 16-17, 25-27). Item 22 PSA Journal: Official Publication of the Photographic Society of America, March 1966 (Vol. 32, No. 3, Part One) "Edward Weston: Photographer" by Ansel Adams (pp. 24-26, 45). Item 23 modern Photography, May