Brett Weston
Out of the Shadow
Through May 18, 2008
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Northeast of the Civic Center Music Hall
405.236.3100, ext. 237
Oklahoma City, OK – The Oklahoma City Museum of Art will be the first venue for Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow, March 20 through May 18, 2008. The exhibition is the first major retrospective of Brett Weston’s work in over 30 years. Although Brett Weston was a key player in the photography world during his lifetime, he was often overshadowed by his father, Edward. Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow will bring to light the younger Weston’s unique creative spirit by examining his long career. The exhibition presents 136 photographs taken in Mexico and California in the 1920s and 1930s, East Coast images from the 1940s, and landscape and nature photographs taken after he returned to the West Coast in 1948. Many of these images push toward pure abstraction, putting Weston at the forefront of non-objective, fine-art photography.