Edward Weston, an American photographer, born in Highland Park, Illinois, began to photograph at his aunt's farm and in Chicago parks when he was sixteen years old with a Kodak Bulls-Eye #2 camera his father had given him. In 1903 Weston first had his photographs exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute. Weston attended the Illinois College of Photography. Four years later he moved to California where he became a founding member of the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles. The Western landscape of California soon became his principal subject matter. He married Flora Chandler in 1909 and they soon gave birth to two sons, Edward Chandler Weston, in 1910 and Theodore Brett Weston in 1911. …
