19 August 2009

Beautiful Landscape

My most favorite photo ever taken in the sand was the nude of Charis Weston on her belly...There are perfect limbs on perfect sand, and then there is one detailed bend at her right side. That bend, that line her waist makes is THE thing...the little element that we look for in photos, minimalist or otherwise, that make it singular and then, last... I think about that photo often, even though he took a handful of other just as notable and beautiful photos of her. I imagine on that day he set his camera up and asked her to lay down, maybe flip over, and that the sand was on her face, so she rested her forehead on her forearms, and made herself comfortable as if she were settling into a temporary bed, leaned a bit to her left, created a comfortable equilibrium and that bend, and then let him pull the trigger...in the end, she has contributed more to the photo than maybe ol' Eddie himself.

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