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

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  When money enters in – then, for a price, I become a liar – and a good one I can be whether with pencil or subtle lighting or viewpoint. I hate it all, but so do I support not only my family, but my own work.

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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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  …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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  “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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  Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.

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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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  Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.

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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 am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.

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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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  …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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  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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  A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.

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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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