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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

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
EDWARD WESTON

Lenses Photography Want
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

Arrangement Cameras Facts Lack Men
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
EDWARD WESTON

Composition Strongest Way
If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
EDWARD WESTON

Amazed Interest Reason
Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
EDWARD WESTON

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

Approach Theory
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
EDWARD WESTON

Artist Facts Thinking
If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
EDWARD WESTON

Cutting Giving Photography
…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
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.
EDWARD WESTON

Photography Steel Substance
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
EDWARD WESTON

Mean Photographer Photography
“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

Artist Lying Photography
Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
EDWARD WESTON

Art Atatined Never Quit
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
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

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

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