Quoting Edward Weston

I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty … . Here was every sensuous curve of the “human figure divine” but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.

— Edward Weston

8:01pm on October 4, 2024 from Turkey.


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