No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
EDWARD WESTONNo photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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 WESTONIs love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
EDWARD WESTONPhotography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
EDWARD WESTONThe photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer’s understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.
EDWARD WESTONThe great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
EDWARD WESTONA photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
EDWARD WESTONThe 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 WESTONI see no reason for recording the obvious.
EDWARD WESTONI was extravagant in the matter of cameras – anything photographic – I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest – or without.
EDWARD WESTONTo 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 WESTONArt is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.
EDWARD WESTONDare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
EDWARD WESTON…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 WESTONGood composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
EDWARD WESTONThis then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.
EDWARD WESTON