The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning to see photographically — that is, learning to see his subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools and processes, so that he can instantaneously translate the elements and values in a scene before him into the photograph he wants to make.
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it? - Edward Weston
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
- Edward Weston
Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid. - Edward Weston
Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
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
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing. - Edward Weston
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography. - Edward Weston
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
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 hesitati… - Edward Weston
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 hesitati…
I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better. - Edward Weston
I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.
A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others. - Edward Weston
A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. - Edward Weston
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
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