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......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

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
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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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I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
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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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No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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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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The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.
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Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
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My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.
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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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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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Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.
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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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Results alone should be appraised the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
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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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To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
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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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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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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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