美國抽象攝影大師：布雷特·韋斯頓

布雷特·韋斯頓（原名Theodore Brett Weston，1911年12月16日生於洛杉磯）美國攝影師。范德倫·柯克說布雷特·韋斯頓是「美國攝影的天才兒童」。他是攝影師愛德華·韋斯頓和弗洛拉·錢德勒的四個兒子中的第二個。

威斯頓在1925年開始拍照，彼時住在墨西哥。他於1927年開始與愛德華·韋斯頓（Edward Weston）合作展出他的照片，17歲時在德國的電影和照片國際展覽會上展出他的照片，並於21歲在舊金山的德揚博物館舉辦了他的第一個個人博物館回顧展。

威斯頓的1920年代的最早的圖像反映了他直觀的複雜的抽象感。他經常將空間壓縮成平面，或將空間分層，他的作品有一種抽象表現主義者和現代派畫家的風格，類似大衛·霍克尼，他比其他攝影師更具有抽象的藝術風格。他在20世紀30年代初開始拍攝加利福尼亞州的沙丘。這最終成為他的父親愛德華的最喜歡的拍照地點位置，後來又與布雷特的第三任妻子多迪·威斯頓湯普森分享這個拍攝地。

布雷特更喜歡高光澤的紙張，以及隨後加入f64小組後使用的明膠銀鹽照相材料的清晰度，而不是20世紀20年代常見的鉑光澤相紙，並鼓勵愛德華·韋斯頓在他自己的工作中探索新的紙基。布雷特被攝影史學家Beaumont Newhall評為第一位將負片作為照片主題的攝影師。韋斯頓的好朋友唐納德·羅斯說，布雷特從來沒有模仿過任何人。

布萊特·韋斯頓曾經把愛德華·韋斯頓稱為「我最大的粉絲」，兩個攝影巨人之間沒有競爭。由於在1958年確認得了帕金森病，愛德華無法再拍照，這時他的妻子多迪忠誠地放下自己的事業陪伴他左右。

布雷特·韋斯頓是美國博物館收集的十大攝影師之一。他的照片收藏在無數博物館中，包括科羅拉多泉美術中心，檀香山藝術博物館，洛杉磯縣藝術博物館，當代藝術博物館，洛杉磯，俄克拉何馬城藝術博物館和舊金山現代藝術博物館。 1996年11月，俄克拉何馬城的收藏家Christian Keesee從布雷特·韋斯頓莊園收購他剩餘的全部作品。

Brett Weston(originally Theodore Brett Weston; December 16, 1911, Los Angeles–January 22, 1993, Hawaii) was an American photographer.Van Deren Coke described Brett Weston as the "child genius of American photography." He was the second of the four sons of photographer Edward Weston and Flora Chandler.

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

Weston s earliest images from the 1920s reflect his intuitive sophisticated sense of abstraction. He 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. He began photographing the dunes at Oceano, California, in the early 1930s. This eventually became a favorite location of his father Edward and later shared with Brett s third wife Dody Weston Thompson. Brett preferred the high gloss papers and ensuing sharp clarity of the gelatin silver photographic materials of the f64 Group rather than the platinum matte photographic papers common in the 1920s and encouraged Edward Weston to explore the new silver papers in his own work. Brett Weston was credited by photography historian Beaumont Newhall as the first photographer to make negative space the subject of a photograph. Donald Ross, a photographer close to both Westons, said that Brett never came after anyone. He was a true photographic equal and colleague to his father and "one should not be considered without the other."

Brett Weston used to refer to Edward Weston lovingly as "my biggest fan" and there was no rivalry between the two photographic giants. Brett and his wife Dody loyally set aside their own photography to help Edward after he was unable to print his own images due to Parkinson s disease, which claimed Edward s life in 1958.

Brett Weston married and divorced four times. He had one daughter, Erica Weston. Brett Weston lived part-time on the Big Island of Hawaii and in Carmel, California for the final 14 years of his life. He maintained a home in Waikoloa that was built by his brother Neil Weston, and later moved to Hawaii Paradise Park. He 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. His photographs are included in the collections of countless museums, including the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In November 1996, Oklahoma City collector Christian Keesee acquired from the Brett Weston Estate the remaining body of Weston』s work.