11 Facts About Brett Weston

Theodore Brett Weston was an American photographer.

Brett Weston began taking photographs in 1925, while living in Mexico with Tina Modotti and his father.

Brett Weston began showing his photographs with Edward Weston in 1927, was featured at the international exhibition at Film und Foto in Germany at age 17, and mounted his first one-man museum retrospective at age 21 at the De Young Museum in San Francisco in January, 1932.

Brett Weston often flattened the plane, engaging in layered space, an artistic style more commonly seen among the abstract expressionists and more modern painters like David Hockney than other photographers.

Brett Weston began photographing the dunes at Oceano, California, in the early 1930s.

Brett Weston was credited by photography historian Beaumont Newhall as the first photographer to make negative space the subject of a photograph.

Brett Weston used to refer to Edward Weston as "my biggest fan" and there was no rivalry between the two photographic giants.

Brett Weston lived part-time on the Big Island of Hawaii and in Carmel, California, for the final 14 years of his life.

Brett Weston maintained a home in Waikoloa that was built by his brother Neil Weston, and later moved to Hawaii Paradise Park.

Brett Weston died in Kona Hospital on January 22,1993, after suffering a stroke.

Brett Weston was ranked one of the top ten photographers collected by American museums by the final decade of his life.