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

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.

Edward Weston

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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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  I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

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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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  …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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  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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  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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  I see no reason for recording the obvious.

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

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  No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

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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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