Description: See Photos, A clean paperback in very good condition, I have deliberately not removed the stickers that are front and back on the cover. There are no creases or turned down pages, but is lightly tanned - see the photos THE DAYBOOKS of Edward Heston Volume 11. CALIFORNIA Edited by NANCY NEWHALL AN APERTURE BOOK "I do not wish to impose my personality upon nature, (any of life's manifestations) but without prejudice or falsification to become identified with nature, to know things in their very essence, so that what I record is not an interpretation-my idea of what nature should be but a revelation, -a piercing of the smoke screen artificially cast over life by irrelevant, humanly limited exigencies, into an absolute, impersonal recognition. "'Self expression, so called, is usually biased opinion, willful distortion, under- statement. Discounting statistical recording, any divergence from nature must be toward a clearer understanding, an intentional emphasis of the essential qualities in things. "Through photography I would present the significance of facts, so they are transformed from things seen to things known. Wisdom controlling the means the camera-makes manifest this knowledge, this revelation, in form communicable to the spectator." "Instead of 'transformed,' as used in the above, would not 'sublimated' better indicate my meaning? "The point I made yesterday about not limiting subject matter to physical manifestations of our day concerns quite a group of young intellectuals, radicals, who imagine that to be 'modern' one must 'shoot' a skyscraper at a dizzy angle. It is not certain subject matter that makes one contemporary, it is how you see any subject matter. Once exciting, the repeated photographing of distorted perspectives is become boresome. I recall with pleasure Sheeler's dignified, austere photographs of New York buildings seen ten years ago. I remember no attempt to force attention by clever viewpoint. He didn't try to be different, he was." E. W., 1932
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Features: Illustrated, Index
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Format: Paperback
Item Width: 218mm
Series: The Daybooks of Edward Weston
Number of Pages: 290
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Item Height: 252mm
Subject: California, Photography
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
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Language: English
Publication Name: The Daybooks of Edward Weston II California
Item Weight: 875g
Subject Area: Diary
Author: Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall
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Publisher: Aperture
Type: Diary
