ars longa

vita brevis,
occasio praeceps,
experimentum periculosum,
iudicium difficile.

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via john maruoka

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He did with everything 8×10; you couldn’t afford to make duplicate exposures. He never did.

“I knew I really didn’t look that good, and that Edward had glorified me,” Ms. Wilson said later, as recounted in The Model Wife, a 1999 study by Arthur Ollman of nine photographers and their images of their wives, “but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn’t wait to go back for more."

went to a wonderful lecture today.

john maruoka spoke on the work of

edward weston and margrethe mather.

charis wilson (above) served as

driver & grant writer (as well as ghost

writer, it seems) for mr. weston. they

were married from 1939 to 1946.

mr. maruoka's lecture was far more

illuminating than this post, but

i'd have to unscramble my notes

to share that with you. hope the

links will suffice, for now.

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