Ned Scott (April 16, 1907-November 24, 1964) was an American photographer who worked in the Hollywood film industry as a still photographer from 1935-1948. As a member of the Camera Club of New York from 1930–34, he was heavily influenced by fellow members Paul Strand and Henwar Rodakiewicz.
Form was his goddess, his muse. The photographic process was a constant search for the right form, the pure essence, the truth of anything. Creativity was a battle, a struggle between his exacting eye and the nature of his contrary and rebellious self. That battle always intrigued him, but left him exhausted. Since form ascendent was the essence of Ned Scott's creativity, he parted company with practitioners of the Photo-Secession movement, Alfred Steiglitz and Edward Steichen of earlier decades. The shape of anything always preceded the idea of its truth, not the reverse. Reality was a function of structure, not the thought process. Capturing that structural truth was the driving force of his photography.
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“Where is the world we roved, Ned Bunn?
Hollows thereof lay rich in shade
By voyagers old inviolate thrown
Ere Paul Pry cruised with Pelf and Trade.
To us old lads some thoughts come home
Who roamed a world young lads no more shall roam.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“So much symmetry!
Like the pale angle of time
And eternity.
The great shape labored and fell.”
—N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)