Impact

 __**Impact **__  When Edward Weston was given his first camera in 1902, photography wasn't thought of as a craft, but Edward Weston revolutionized the ways photographers chose subject material and used certain photographic techniques to create what eventually came to be accepted as fine art.

 Edward Weston helped found a group purist photographers, the F/64 Group, named after the lens-aperture size that exposed an image at its most detailed and clear. Where sharpness, tonal values and detail were very important and they rejected all manipulation. He was the first photographer ever to be given a Guggenheim fellowship. Weston also helped to take photography out of the Victorian age and pioneered into the modernist age.  Edward Weston was widely accepted as a Great American photographer. "Weston's forms are nothing if not sensually motivated." Stated by one of his Editors, Mora. An edition of Publisher's Weekly states that "His "coherent whole" discovery in Mexico, an exploration and artistic transformation with the help of his Guggenheim grants resulted in the pure-photography "eternalizing" and "objectification" of a universal subjects." Beaumont Newhall referred to Weston the founding father of American photography. It is know that his straightforward, modernist approach dominated American photography until many years after his death. Whether it was a seashell, a bell pepper or the female form, there was limitless sensual variety, and his formal brilliance was allied to a democratic approach to his subject matter.

Weston spent most of his working life in Mexico and California. It is noticeable in most of his work, the harsh light of those places. He wanted, he said, "to make the commonplace unusual", a statement that still continues to this day, as it is repeated through photographic practice. Edward Weston's aesthetic was to show the real world in its unrelieved integrity rather than create an imaginary concept. He was concerned with what was visually real. Weston was a true pioneer whose vision permanently changed the way we view the world around us.