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Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
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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Torso
Rocks
Stacks
Tree
Interdependent
Whole
Peppers
Life
Shells
Trees
Smoke
Clouds
Interrelated
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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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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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To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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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.
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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 am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
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My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.
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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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...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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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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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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...through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed.
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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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No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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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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If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
Edward Weston
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
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