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The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.

Edward Weston

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Edward Weston
Age: 71 †
Born: 1886
Born: January 1
Died: 1958
Died: January 1
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Edward Henry Weston
Edward H. Weston
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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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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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I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.
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Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
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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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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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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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An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.
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Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.
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When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.
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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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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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No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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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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If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
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