Born on the 24th of march 1886, in Highland Park, Illinois Edward Weston spent most his time in Chicago. At the age of sixteen be begun to take photos after his father got him a bulls eye 2 camera he took photos of the parks of Chicago. His first photo was published in 1906 and after this he moved to California and worked as a surveyor. After this he spent time as an itinerant photographer traveling door to door photographing anything of interest. The combination of Weston’s stark objectivity and his love of nature and form gave his still files, portraits and  landscapes, qualities that seemed particularly suited for expressing the new American lifestyle and aesthetic that emerged from California and the West between the two world wars. in 1932 he joined a group along with Ansel Adems, Imogen Cunningham and other photographers called f/64, the group worked together to create an exhibition. 

Textual: This photo has been taken with natural lighting due to it being a natural landscape, there are some very dark shadows which suggest the sun was bright and high in the sky. The image has a very high contrast however most of the photo is a light grey colour. which helps the texture stand out.

Visual: It is a black and white photo which is relatively bright however does have some highlighted and shadowed areas. the texture in the sand in the foreground is detailed and shows a pattern, however as you go up  and towards the mid ground the imaged the patterns become more fine and hard to see. Each layer of the dune looks different which helps them stand out and look different. The image is full of lines, for example at the top of each dune there is a shadow which helps define it and creates depth in the image.