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It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of social significance when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.
Edward Weston
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Edward Weston
Age: 71 †
Born: 1886
Born: January 1
Died: 1958
Died: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
Edward Henry Weston
Edward H. Weston
Eric Weston
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Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.
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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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