American - Photographer | May 30, 1953 -
I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.
Kim Weston
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In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.
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My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing.
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You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.
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Any nude is a something you setup in front of the camera.
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Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.
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If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work.
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The gallery is generating work for the masses.
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Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.
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I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.
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I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.
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What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.
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