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A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.

Edward Weston

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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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.
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Eye Light Lying
I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
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Approach Theory
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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Form Pulse Reason
…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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Grace Photography Salad
No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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Cameras Photographer Simplest
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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Composition Strongest Way
……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
A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
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Bother Faults Lifetime
A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
EDWARD WESTON

Looks Photograph Values
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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Essential Fog Rocks
Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
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Clouds Interdepend Rocks Tree
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
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Lenses Photography Want
Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
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Eye Opportunity Vision
Art is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.
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Art Order World
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
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Car Photography Yards

A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.

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