fornia, 1929; Federal Arts Project, 1935. Elected to
London Salon of Photography, 1917; John Simon
Guggenheim Fellowships, 1937–1939. Died in Carmel,
California, 1 January 1958.
Individual Exhibitions
1922 Academia de Bellas Artes; Mexico City, Mexico
1923 Atzec Land Gallery; Mexico City, Mexico
1930 First one-man show; Delphic Studios; New York, New
York
1937 San Francisco Museum of Art; San Francisco, Cali-
fornia
1946 Retrospective; Museum of Modern Art, New York,
New York
1950 Retrospective; Paris, France
1956 The World of Edward Weston; Smithsonian Institu-
tion, Washington, D.C., and traveling
1986 Centennial Retrospective; Center for Creative Photo-
graphy, Tucson, Arizona
1990 Weston’s Westons; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts; and Baltimore Museum of Art, Balti-
more, Maryland
1955 The Garden of Earthly Delights: Photographs by
Edward Weston and Robert Mapplethorpe; UCR/Califor-
nia Museum of Photography, Riverside, California
2000 Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism; Mu-
seum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Group Exhibitions
1925 Edward Weston and Tina Modotti; Museo de Estado;
Guadalajara, Mexico
1930 Harvard Society for Contemporary Art; Cambridge,
Massachusetts
1931 f/64 Group; M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco,
California
1948 This is Contemporary Art; Museum of Modern Art,
New York, New York
Selected Works
Pipes and Stacks: Armco, Middletown, Ohio, 1922
Tina on the Azotea, 1923
Diego Rivera, 1924
Torso of Neil, 1925
Tres Ollas, 1926
Chambered Nautilus, 1927
Pepper, 1929
Jose ́Clemente Orozco, 1930
Cabbage Leaf, California, USA, 1931
Dunes, Oceano, 1936
Nude, 1936
Surf, China Cove, Point Lobos, 1938
Floating Nude, 1939
Eroded Rocks, South Shore, Point Lobos, 1948
Point Lobos, 1946
Further Reading
Conger, Amy.Edward Weston in Mexico, 1923–1926.Albu-
querque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983.
Hooks, Margaret.Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolu-
tionary.London and San Francisco: Pandora-Harper
Collins Publishers, 1993.
Maddow, Ben.Edward Weston: His Life.New York: Aper-
ture Foundation, 1989.
Modotti, Tina, and Amy Stark, eds.The Letters from Tina
Modotti to Edward Weston.Tucson, AZ: Center for
Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 1986.
Mora, Gilles, ed.Edward Weston: Forms of Passion.New
York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995.
Newhall, Beaumont, and Amy Conger, eds.Edward Weston
Omnibus: A Critical Anthology.Salt Lake City: G.M.
Smith-Peregrine Smith Books, 1984.
Newhall, Beaumont.Supreme Instants: The Photography of
Edward Weston.Boston: Little, Brown, 1986.
Newhall, Nancy, ed.Edward Weston: The Flame of Recogni-
tion.New York: Aperture, Inc., 1965; 4th edition, 1997.
Weston, Edward, and Nancy Newhall, eds.The Daybooks of
Edward Weston.Millerton, New York: Aperture, Inc., 1973.
Weston, Edward, and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., eds.Wes-
ton’s Westons: Portraits and Nudes. Boston: Museum of
Fine Arts, 1989.
Wilson, Charis, and Wendy Madar.Through Another Lens:
My Life with Edward Weston.New York: North Point
Press, 1998.
CLARENCE WHITE
American
Clarence H. White, one of the founders of the
Photo-Secession, is now known chiefly as an edu-
cator who founded an important center for pho-
tographic training at Columbia University in New
York. His achievements as a photographer, how-
ever, continue to be of interest, exemplifying the
pure currents of Pictorialism as it developed at the
turn of the twentieth century in the United States.
His photographs of gentle, domestic subjects were
realized in beautifully modulated platinum and gra-
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