I’ve always loved classic landscape and nature photography. Some of the earliest expressions of modernism are found in works by artists like Edward Weston who turned his back on soft focus pictorialism  in the 1920’s and began to photograph objects the way they would be seen by the unaided human eye.

 

The forceful lines and textures of a tree trunk or the sensuousness of a contorted pepper have been copied enough to become cliches, but Weston was one of the first to recognize an unmanipulated photo’s ability to communicate the meaning he saw in the world around him.