[Fall Oak leaves]

Cole WESTON (1919-2003, photographer).

[Fall Oak leaves]. [N.p.] 1994. Large c-print photograph (15 x 19 1/4; 381 x 489mm), white card mount, signed and dated on the mount 'Cole Weston 1994'. Framed and glazed (frame dimension: 25 1/2 x 28 1/2in; 647 x 723mm), gallery label to verso.

An evocative image from Edward Weston's youngest son. “In the history of photography there are but a few masters of color photography, Cole Weston is assuredly one of these masters of the medium whose dramatic powerful images are a source of great joy and pleasure” (Michael Hoffman  from Aperture publications). 

"Cole Weston (January 30, 1919 – April 20, 2003) was Edward Weston's fourth and youngest son. Although Weston "was born into the tradition of craftsman- produced black-and-white art photography, he was to find his own photographic direction in colour.".

Cole Weston's life followed a diverse course that started with theater, later leading him to the Navy, a position photographing for Life, and later photographing portraits, before he moved to Carmel, California in 1946, at his father's request. In the years that followed, Cole became his father's assistant and trusted companion; and, as Edward's struggle with Parkinson's disease worsened, Cole became the keeper of two careers, his father's and his own. Before his death in 2003, Cole Weston was devoted to keeping both bodies of work flourishing and circulating widely" (wikipedia)