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Born in England, and raised in South Africa, Maggi Weston
initially came to the United States to perform on the New
York stage. It was through this early love of theater that
she first met Cole Weston, the son of Edward. The two were
married and had a son, Matthew. After twelve years, they divorced,
and shortly afterward, she took the bold step of opening a
gallery in Carmel. Maggi's close friendship with Ansel Adams
placed her in a unique position as his exclusive dealer, a
circumstance which was of great help in establishing the gallery
which is still known today as a leader in the field. However,
it was her own unerring instinct and eye, and her understanding
of the field of fine art photography from its beginnings,
which has ensured her success and won her the trust of same
of the most influential and important collectors in the world.
From its inception, the Weston Gallery has been dedicated
to the recognition of photography as a fine art, of equal
importance and influence with painting, sculpture, printmaking
and the other traditional fine arts. The specialization in
Fine 19th and 20th century photographs reflects this awareness.
Weston Gallery has been actively buying and selling fine
photographs and related works of art for more than 26 years.
They have paid careful attention to the important, sometimes
pivotal images which have been created over the years and
we have placed emphasis on these works in presenting photographs
to its clients. In stressing respect for the tradition of
the avant-garde, whether they were showing vintage or contemporary
photographs, they have always sought and shown the finest
examples.
From the 19th century the Weston Gallery has specialized
in the works of Talbot, Hill, Fenton, Cameron, Tripe, Emerson,
F.H. Evans, Le Gray, Marville, Cuvelier, Baldus, Negre, Watkins,
and Muybridge, to name just a few.
The 20th Century collection includes works by masters such
as Atget, Stieglitz, Strand, Steichen, Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray,
Adams, Edward Weston, Brandt, Kertesz, and Sudek and the modem
masters such as Frank, Smith, Karsh, Sommer, Penn, CaIIahan
and Brett Weston.
Important contemporary photographers whose work we show
are Mapplethorpe, Serrano, Gibson, Kasten, Kenna, Uelsmann,
Misrach, Parker, Citret, Dresser, Pickford, and Hooper, among
others.
Weston Gallery is the exclusive agent for the Ansel Adams
Publishing Rights Trust in offering the Ansel Adams Museum
Set Edition Prints. In 1978, three years after Ansel had stopped
printing for the general public, Maggi Weston and Ansel worked
together to realize his dream of making his most important
images available to a wider audience than might be reached
through private collections. Today only a few of the Museum
Sets are still available, the original sets having been sold
to such prominent institutions as Boston University, Comell
University, Princeton University, Stanford Art Museum, the
Museum of Modem Art in New York and San Francisco, and the
National Gallery in Washington, D.C.
The Weston Gallery also represents certain interests of the
estates of Edward Weston and Paul Strand and is the exclusive
agent for Yousef Karsh.
If you wish to visit Ms. Westons's website, please visit:
http://www.westongallery.com/
To ask Ms. Weston a question please fill out the form below. The most
popular questions and answers will be posted on this page.
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