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Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?

Edward Weston

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
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
EDWARD WESTON

Hard Work Matter Photography
This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.
EDWARD WESTON

Looks Photography Rocks
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
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.
EDWARD WESTON

Cameras Matter Photography
……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
Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
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Art Atatined Never Quit
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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Photography Steel Substance
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
I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
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Approach Theory
No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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Cameras Photographer Simplest
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
EDWARD WESTON

Artist Facts Thinking
A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
EDWARD WESTON

Looks Photograph Values
…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
Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
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Courage Dare Fluid
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.
EDWARD WESTON

Eye Ideas Matter Mind Switch

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