His process, meth­ods and equip­ment had all been pared down to the barest essen­tials, and the activ­i­ties of daily liv­ing had under­gone a sim­i­lar treat­ment. Edward’s guid­ing prin­ci­ples in both areas were sim­ple and log­i­cal: Does it give me more time to pho­to­graph? More money for film? More stor­age space? Less time in the dark­room? He had a pol­icy of not mak­ing dupli­cate neg­a­tives, which qual­i­fied on all four counts, and was fur­ther rein­forced by his firm belief that a good pho­tog­ra­pher, work­ing with a large cam­era, should be suf­fi­ciently sure of what he was doing to make the right expo­sure the first time.

- Charis Wil­son, from The Weston Eye, found in EW 100: Cen­ten­nial Essays in Honor of Edward Weston