I see no reason for recording the obvious.
EDWARD WESTONI see no reason for recording the obvious.
EDWARD WESTONArt is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.
EDWARD WESTONIt’s hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
EDWARD WESTONThe 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 WESTONThe 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.
EDWARD WESTONMy true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
EDWARD WESTONA photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
EDWARD WESTONI am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
EDWARD WESTONThe great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
EDWARD WESTON“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”.”
EDWARD WESTON…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 WESTONResults alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
EDWARD WESTONI want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
EDWARD WESTONThis then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.
EDWARD WESTON……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.
EDWARD WESTON