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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams
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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
Environmentalist
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San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
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I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.
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