Brett Weston
American, 1911 - 1993#9 Farm, Switzerland, 1973
Not on view
Gelatin silver Print
Dimensions10 3/8 × 13 7/16 in. (26.4 × 34.1 cm)
Gift of Nancy Tarbox, 1978.54
In 1925, Brett Weston moved to Mexico with his father Edward Weston, also a photographer. Here, the thirteen year old became his father's apprentice and was introduced to a series of modernist painters which unquestionably influenced his sense of form and composition. He appreciated how the camera transformed the contrast of black and white into near abstraction.
