Brett Weston was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1911. He was educated by his father, a former photographer, Edward Weston; his father took him out of school when he was thirteen-years-old to be his apprentice in Mexico City. Being surrounded by other revolutionary photographers of the day, where Brett's inspiration came from; he too began taking his own photographs with his father's small Graflex camera. He tends to take photos of nature and architecture. Brett's early exposure to photography helped impact his sense of form, composition, and design. He believes black and white photos give objects an, "obscured appearance." Brett also believed non-photographic artists impacted his work more. Such as Georgia O’Keeffe, a former painter.

Wynn Bullock was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1902, but was raised in South Pasadena, California. His education took place at Columbia University and the University of West Virginia but he graduated from Art Center School in Los Angelos. Wynn moved to New York to pursue his singing career/dream; but once he discovered the work of Man Ray and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, he immediately had an inspiration and wanted to also start taking photographs. He believed he could be more creatively engaged with the world with photography. Later on, his career took a huge turning point when Wynn met Edward Weston, Brett Weston's father. Wynn was inspired by the power and beauty of Edward's prints. Wynn did try color photography, but was aggravated with the limitations; so he returned to black and white photography.