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Compiled and Edited by Richard
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1941 |
February 7:
Receives letter from George May, Director of Limited Editions
Club. Proposes illustrating Walt Whitman Book, Leaves of
Grass. Funding : $1,000 for photographs and $500 travel
expenses. Proposal accepted.
May 28 :
Travels east from Los Angeles on Whitman Trip. Trip covers
20,000 miles through 24 states and produces 700 8x10
negatives. Subjects included : straight portraits of the
common man and accomplishment of modern industry (skyscrapers,
train yards, hydroelectric dams.)
December 7 :
Pearl Harbor attacked. Concludes Whitman photographing and
returns to Carmel via southwestern route.
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1942 |
January 6 : Tina
Modotti dies in Mexico City.
March 19 :
Ships 73 mounted glossy prints to Limited Edition Club for
Whitman Book. 54 photographs selected. 49 made final
publication.
War Effort :
Becomes Aircraft spotter at Yankee Point, California for the
Ground Observation Corp.
Point Lobos
closed to public. Photographic work centered around Wildcat
Hill : portraits, satires, nudes, and cat series.
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1945 |
Began long slow
decline with Parkinson's Disease.
November 15 :
Separates from Charis Wilson Weston.
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1946 |
February 11 :
Opens Major Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New
York. 313 prints shipped for the exhibition. 250 photographs
hung in exhibition along with 11 negatives. 97 prints sold at
$25 per print.
Cole moves to
Carmel to become Edward's primary photographic assistant at
Wildcat Hill.
August :
Request from Dr. George L. Waters of Kodak to produce color
transparencies for Kodak Advertising. Offered $250 per
transparency. Sells 7 images for $1750 of Monterey and Point
Lobos locations.
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1947 |
Dody Warren
becomes photographic assistant at Wildcat Hill
Film : "The
Photographer," produced by Willard Van Dyke for the United
States Information Agency. Profiles Edward Weston's life in
photography. Filming takes place at Wildcat Hill, Point Lobos,
Death Valley, and Yosemite. Dody and Cole assist Edward
photographing in color during the production.
Book : The
Cats of Wildcat Hill, published. 19 photographs with
extensive text by Charis. Photographs selected from a series
of 140 negatives produced between 1943 - 1945.
Book : Fifty
Photographs : Edward Weston, published. Edited by Merle
Armitage. Introduction by Robinson Jeffers.
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1948 |
Parkinson's
Disease advances and Edward forced to stop photographing.
Creates final negative, "Rocks and Pebbles, 1948" at Point
Lobos.
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1950 |
Major
Retrospective at Musee d'art Modern, Paris, France.
Book : My
Camera on Point Lobos, published by Virginia and Ansel
Adams. 30 8x10 reproductions. Sold for $10.
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1952 |
50th Anniversary
Portfolio released. 12 print portfolio for $100 in edition of
100. Printed by Brett. Assisted in project by Cole, Dody,
Morley and Frances Baer.
Printing of
Project Prints begins : Series of 8 -10 prints from 832
negatives considered Edward's lifetime best. Printed by Brett
over the next three years with the assistance from Cole and
Dody. Project funding of $6,000 provided by Dick McGraw. Only
complete set housed at the University of California, Santa
Cruz.
"Dear Beau and Nancy,
Hope this reaches you in
France! On top of Project printing, came the death of my
sister; then Kraig (Neil's wife), and baby Jana were stricken
with polio and rushed to S.F. via ambulance. Kraig lost the
use of both legs, and Jana one leg. The future? For the first
time I have a negative count. Guess? I saved more than I
guessed -3,000 (approximately). From these Brett will print
five sets of 100 each. My hope is to keep the sets intact, but
who will want or have room for 1000 "Westons"? Perfectionists
will howl that no one could make 1000 photographs, worth
saving, in a lifetime - and I might agree. But I do think that
999 of them are of interest and quality worth saving, and who
is to take out that one extra?....
....My writing is
getting cramped.
So - just - all love -
Edward.
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1956 |
"The World of
Edward Weston" exhibition . Directed by Beaumont and Nancy
Newhall. Circulated by the Smithsonian Institution.
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1958 |
January 1 : Dies
at Wildcat Hill. Ashes scattered into the Pacific Ocean at
Pebbly Beach, Point Lobos. Beach will later be renamed Weston
Beach. |
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