Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

These are Edward Weston’s notes on daguerreotypes. He remarks that those original images had no artistic pretensions at all. The complicated process made it hard for photographers to play the “arrogant artist.” Weston also suggests that the [...]

In this article, the American artist, Edward Weston, expresses his avant-garde opinions about photography. He insists that a photograph should neither imitate other forms of artistic expression, nor rely on tricks or attempt to replicate alternative [...]