Gelatin silver print, 1974, pencil signed and dated to mount recto lower right, also inscribed "32 Kelp 1974 Calif" in ink to mount verso, retains gallery label, matted, unframed.

Image size 10 5/8 x 11 5/8 in.; Mount size 14 1/4 x 16 in.; Mat size 16 x 20 in.

Brett Weston was born in Los Angeles to photographer Edward Weston in 1911. In 1925, he began apprenticing under his father in Mexico, surrounded by artists such as Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo, and Diego Rivera. He returned to California in 1926 and assisted his father in his portrait studio. At the age of seventeen, a group of his images were included in the German exhibition “Film und Foto”, considered one of the most important avant-garde exhibitions held between the two World Wars, where he gained international recognition. In 1929, Brett and his father moved to Carmel, California where they would remain for the rest of their lives. He maintained his own studio and portrait business in Los Angeles and New York, where he was stationed in the army. He later traveled extensively on personal photographic trips to South America, Europe, Japan, Alaska, and Hawaii, and earned a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947, which he used to photograph along the East Coast.

Good visible condition; few minor, superficial scratches that don't pierce surface and are only visible in raking light; some age, wear, and skinning to mount.