"Whatever the reasons, I enjoyed being nude; it felt natural to me. I got the same kind of pleasure from being free of clothing that many people get from being well dressed."
"If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body."
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Source: Edward Weston, Charis Wilson (1993). “Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters”
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