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Kim Weston
American
Photographer
About the author
I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Time
#Painting
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,
American
Photographer
#Years
#Trees
#Travel
The gallery is generating work for the masses.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Work
The darkroom is just the means to an end.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#End
No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Idea
#Passion
My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Photography
#Son
It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera and not expose any of your weaknesses.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
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.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Work
#Care
I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Work
#Sense
#Act
#Theater
I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Art
#Artist
The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Art
#Rules
I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Vision
#Personality
That's not to say that some day I won't go outside again, but I'm having a great time working on this process.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Time
#Day
I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Love
I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Pressure
#Famous
I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Time
#Family
#Being
I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Support
#Money
#Photography
I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Want
#Family
#Dad
#Travel
Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Work
#Thought
#Photography
#Dad
#Growing up
Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Work
Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Being
As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Artist
#Arrogance
Any nude is a something you setup in front of the camera.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Life
#Work
I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Information
Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Vision
#Father
#Famous
We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Now
#Old
My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Surprises
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.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Want
#Work
#Vision
#Passion
#Desire
#Dedication
To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Ideas
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.
Kim Weston,
American
Photographer
#Work
#First
#Idea