Photography is a matter of eyes, intuition,
and intellect. For eyes and intuition, no photographer was ever more richly
endowed than Edward Weston.
Weston had been a skillful and successful
photographer for more than a decade when in the early twenties his own
unique vision began to reveal itself. By 1930, when he was forty-five, he
had produced a body of work that would come to identify him as a major
artist, a man whose work has changed our perception of what the world and
life are like.
It was as though the things of everyday
experience had been transformed for Weston into organic sculptures, the
forms of which were both the expression and the justification of the life
within. The exhilarating visual power of Weston's work is the product of a
deeper achievement: He had freed his eyes of conventional expectation, and
had taught them to see the statement of intent that resides in natural form.
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Szarkowski, John, "Edward
Weston," Looking At Photographs. (New York:
The Museum of Modern Art), 1973. p.84.
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