...to reveal the individual before his camera, to transfer the living quality of that individual to his finished print...Not to make road maps but to record the essential truth of the subject; not to show how this person looks, but to show what he is.

Edward Weston

Edward Weston's definition of the role of the portrait photographer. "The Portrait in Photography", Reaktion Books, London 1992, Mick Gidley, p136 - 137.

...to reveal the individual before his camera, to transfer the living quality of that individual to his finished print...Not to make road maps but to record the essential truth of the subject; not to show how this person looks, but to show what he is.

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