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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

…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

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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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  The 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.

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  I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

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  I 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.

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  No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

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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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  Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

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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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  “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”.”

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  This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

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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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  My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

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  It’s hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

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  Art is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.

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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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  Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.

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