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Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

Edward Weston

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Edward Weston
Age: 71 †
Born: 1886
Born: January 1
Died: 1958
Died: January 1
Archer
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Photographer
Highland Park
Illinois
Edward Henry Weston
Edward H. Weston
Eric Weston
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Sees
Imagery
Quickly
Worker
Perfect
Workers
Temper
Teeming
Body
Active
Medium
Slowed
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Minds
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Decisively
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Photography
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Prolific
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Whose
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Sculpting
Painting
Bodies
Accurately

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I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.
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My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to different subject matter. So I start out with my mind as free from image as the silver film on which I am to record, and I hope as sensitive.
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I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.
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...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.
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I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
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An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.
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For the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement.
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My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.
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Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed artists.
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The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.
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No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation.
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Results alone should be appraised the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
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