Edward Weston

Edward Weston was born in 1886 in Aighland Park, Illinois. He started photography at age 16 when he got his first camera, a Kodak Bulls-Eye #2. He started out taking pictures at his aunt's farm in Chicago. By 1903 his first photographs were exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute. Later down the road he decided to attend the Illinois College of Photography, and eventually went back to California to make his own porterate studio. He did lots of writing, and got multiple articles published in magazines, one including the American Photography Magazine. In 1927 he mainly focused his photography on shells, nudes, and still life. He is a well known Photographer, who even had the chance to publish a book or two.

I liked this photograph because it reminds me of life up at a cabin. It looks very peaceful because there isn't big buildings and cars all over the place. When I look at the picture, it seems like i'm looking back in time, when technology haden't come such a long way, and people lived simple lives.