"Je tire beaucoup plus de joie des choses déjà composées que je découvre dans la nature, que de mes meilleurs arrangements personnels. Après tout, sélectionner est une autre manière de composer..." - 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." - Edward Weston

"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston

Edward WESTON (1886 - 1958) - est un photographe américain très connu pour ses natures mortes de coquillages, fruits et légumes (poivrons notamment)... En 1932, il fonde avec Ansel Adams le groupe "f-64". La bourse remportée lors d'un concours "Guggenheim Fellowship" lui permet de sillonner les routes américaines.

American photographer well-known for his shells and vegetable studies and landscape subjects. he co-founded Group f/64 in 1932 with Ansel Adams. Edward Weston became the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship for experimental work in 1936 and he spent the next two years taking photographs in the West and Southwest United States

Edward Weston - The Edward Weston/Cole Weston family website

Portrait of Edward Weston by Cole Weston
8" x 10"