That’s because it is a Brett Weston! This original Brett Weston appears to have been used for a publication back in the 1960′s. Not signed but the writing on the back Bridge. Is in Brett’s hand. The dimensions on the back are not the image size but the size that it could have been used for in whatever publication it was in. The link below will take you to a website that show another view of the image made within minutes of this one. Like his Mendenhall Glacier photograph, Brett would often make a few images around the same time… And that was the case here. BRETT WESTON VINTAGE 1965 BRIDGEPORT CALIFORNIA 8″X10″ PHOTOGRAPH. A stunning image, printed as only he could by one of the greatest photographers of the last 100 years, Brett Weston. Here is a nice video made back in the early 1970′s that includes Brett Weston along with brothers Cole and Neil. Great to hear his voice once again. I had this photograph professionally corner mounted and matted to museum board and it looks fantastic! By 1923 Edward and Flora’s marriage was ending and Edward went to Mexico with his eldest son Chandler. Brett Weston was devastated by his father’s departure and over the next two years he got into trouble at school. Within a few months Edward stated that Brett Weston was “doing better work at fourteen than I did at thirty”. Edward set up a studio and he and Brett Weston worked together for the next 3 years. In 1929 twenty of Brett Weston’s prints were accepted in the “Film und Foto” exhibition in Stuttgart. By 1930 there was some strain in Edward and Brett Weston’s relationship. Brett Weston decided it was time to leave and he set out on his own with his equipment, fifty dollars and a car. He set up an informal studio in a friend’s home in Los Angeles. During the early years of the Great Depression he made a meager living as a portrait photographer. In 1932 he had his first one-man show at the M. In 1935 he went to Santa Monica and once again opened up a studio with his father. Three years later he created his first portfolio, 10 images of San Francisco. During World War II, he worked in an aircraft plant, as a cameraman at Twentieth Century-Fox, and eventually volunteered for the armed forces. By pulling a few strings he was assigned to the Signal Corps in New York where one of his commanders, Arthur Rothstein, gave him some time to photograph in the city. He shot with his 8 x 10 view camera and the resulting portfolio, “New York”, was issued in 1951. After Brett Weston was discharged he spent some time photographing from Florida to Maine for a Guggenheim grant he received. Brett Weston continued to do portrait work and some of his photographs were published in magazines. In 1951, Brett Weston put together his father’s “50th Anniversary Folio”. Suffering from Parkinson’s disease, Edward could no longer do his own work. In 1955, Brett Weston stopped making his own photographs and moved into Edward’s home to work non-stop. In 1968 a German camera company gave Brett a 2 & 1/4 SLR camera. The smaller format camera allowed him endless possibilities in the realm of abstractions. In 1975, the University of New Mexico exhibited his work in honor of his fiftieth year in photography. The item “BRETT WESTON VINTAGE 1965 BRIDGEPORT CALIFORNIA 8X10 PHOTOGRAPH” is in sale since Thursday, May 05, 2016. This item is in the category “Art\Art from Dealers & Resellers\Photographs”. The seller is “russlevin” and is located in Monterey, California. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Original/Reprint: Original Print
• Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
• Signed?: Unsigned
• Date of Creation: 1950-Now
• Photo Type: Gelatin Silver
• Subject: Landscape
• Color: Black & White
• Framing: Matted
• Region of Origin: US