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- Your Shot Photos of the Week
Your best photos of the week, October 5, 2018
Each week, our editors choose stunning photos submitted by members of Your Shot, National Geographic's photo community.
Editing the daily Your Shot uploads just yesterday morning, I had an extraordinary moment: I saw a photograph that reminded me exactly of Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30. The light, the form, the intimacy of the image transcended just being a pepper on a dark background, but a testament to our visual history.
Weston’s image reminded me of sitting in a darkened college auditorium. While some of my classmates were catching up on sleep, I was fascinated by the history of photography, where it all came from, what brought us to where we were as visual storytellers. I still remember learning about that image among countless others starting from Niépce, Daguerre, and Eastman to Lange,