(Note:  The photographs ((Violet Romer as Psyche 1915, Armco Steel 1922 and Pepper No. 30 1930))  have been removed from this article for fear of possible copyright infringement.)

The first half of the twentieth century was a period of great change in the History of Photography, an era bridging the romantic fairy-tale look of the Pictorialists to the explosion of unique styles and methods of the post-World War II era. One of the most influential artists of this period was Edward Weston.

Edward Henry Weston was born in Highland Park, Illinois on March 24, 1886. He graduated from Oakland Grammar School in 1903 – he had a lifelong distaste for school and authority in general, and according to R.H. Cravens,  once remarked: “(school) is a good place to train and mold the minds of those who are to be the slaves of the world. (more…)