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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

Edward Weston

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Edward Weston
Age: 71 †
Born: 1886
Born: January 1
Died: 1958
Died: January 1
Archer
Diarist
Photographer
Highland Park
Illinois
Edward Henry Weston
Edward H. Weston
Eric Weston
Composition
Strongest
Merely
Seeing
Way
Good

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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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...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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People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.
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Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.
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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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......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal 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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I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.
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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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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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If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
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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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...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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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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Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
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An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.
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I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
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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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I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
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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.
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