Edward Weston

Weston was an early 20th century photographer, most famous for his abstract images of natural forms, nudes, and landscapes. His nude work is not quite macro, and I feel it has more of a pictorial consideration than my own, but it does lean toward the obscure. This manipulation of the human form both physically and with camera/lighting tricks, is what attracts me to Weston's photographs. Due to their pictorial nature, I think his works with nudes are really trying to achieve something different to my own, I wouldn't even refer to my work as being nude. Though I do like Weston's understanding of what the human form can give as a subject,

"I am stimulated to work with the nude body, because of the infinite combinations of lines which are present with every move,"

Images and quote from http://www.edward-weston.com/