……so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
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.
More Edward Weston Quotes
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Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
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If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
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I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
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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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To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
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Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
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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 see no reason for recording the obvious.
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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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The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.
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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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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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This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.
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