Born in Illinois in 1886, Edward Weston opened a studio in California in 1911 where he achieved success as a commercial photographer, making portraits in the popular soft-focus, pictorialist style of the time. By the early 1920s, Weston had become dissatisfied with these `false`, retouched and manipulated images. After meeting Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler in 1922, she began to adopt a more straightforward and realistic style of photography. In 1922 Weston took a series of momentous photographs of the Armco Steelworks in Ohio: his break with pictorialism is evident in the si Edward Weston - Amy Conger od authora Amy Conger a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.