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Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.
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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...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.
Edward Weston
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
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
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.
Edward Weston
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.
Edward Weston
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.
Edward Weston
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
Edward Weston
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
Edward Weston
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
Edward Weston
......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
Edward Weston
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.
Edward Weston
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
Edward Weston
Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed artists.
Edward Weston
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
Edward Weston
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
Edward Weston
I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.
Edward Weston
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.
Edward Weston
...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.
Edward Weston
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.
Edward Weston
If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
Edward Weston
