Our sensibilities today are not fooled by the novelty of the camera process; modern men clearly feel the individual personality of each of the authors of different photographs, although made at the same time and in the same space. We feel the personality of the photographer as clearly as that of the painter, draughtsman, or printmaker. Actually, camera and darkroom manipulations are a technique, like oil, pencil, or watercolor; and, above all, the means of expression of human personality.

Diego Rivera, “Edward Weston and Tina Modotti”, Mexican Folkways 2, April-May 1926. [cited in: “EW:100 – Centennial Essays in Honor of Edward Weston”, “Tina Modotti and Edward Weston: A Re-evaluation of their Photography” p. 63, Untitled 41, The Friends of Photography, Carmel, California 1986]

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