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Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

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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Understand
Ultimately
Men
Fellows
People
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Photography
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Photographing

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Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.
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If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
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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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......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.
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Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.
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To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
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I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
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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.
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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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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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No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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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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