In his journal, he wrote, "It is classic, completely satisfying – a pepper – but more than a pepper: abstract, in that it is completely outside subject matter." Photograph: Edward Weston/©1981 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents, my recent column on photographers who wrote well. As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.”, “If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!”. From 1938 until his death in 1958, Weston lived in a wooden cabin on Wildcat Hill in Carmel, California, near Point Lobos, a huge stretch of shoreline that he photographed again and again. Please contact individual family members above for current pricing on all photographs they may have for sale. One of the last photographs he made is called The Dody Rocks, Point Lobos. Having become lovers after she posed for him, they first travelled to Modotti's Mexico in 1923 and remained there for five years. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.” -- Edward Weston, “There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. Spotted a problem? It is subtitled Something Out of Nothing, a title that says much about how his ever-restless imagination had found yet another way of seeing, and one that perhaps surprised even himself in its rendering of "the very substance and quintessence" of that extraordinary landscape. As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. "” -- Edward Weston, “The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. 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?”, “To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.”, “I see no reason for recording the obvious.”, “Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.”, “My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.”, “Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. Summary of Edward Weston. Some of his most famous photographs were taken of the trees and rocks at Point Lobos, California, near where he lived for many years. Over the course of his 40-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still lives, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies.