High-Light: Edward Weston

Seen as one of the most influential American photographers, Edward Weston commonly used vegetables and the human body as his subjects. In his prolific studies of the human body, I love how he can take flesh and turn it into a landscape - topographic erotica. He is famously known or saying, "The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh." Below are some of my favorite images by him: