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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.

Edward Weston

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

Approach Theory
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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Composition Strongest Way
Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
EDWARD WESTON

Courage Dare Fluid
A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
EDWARD WESTON

Bother Faults Lifetime
……so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
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Composition Technique Way
No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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Cameras Photographer Simplest
Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
EDWARD WESTON

Art Atatined Never Quit
Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
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Makers Results Way
Art is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.
EDWARD WESTON

Art Order World
I see no reason for recording the obvious.
EDWARD WESTON

Photographer Photography Reason
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
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Mean Photographer Photography
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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Photographer Photography Program
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.
EDWARD WESTON

Important Photography Understanding
…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

Eye Light Lying
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.
EDWARD WESTON

Essential Fog Rocks
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
EDWARD WESTON

Car Photography Yards

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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