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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

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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The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by, for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.
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My wife - she could help me get the negs out!
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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
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Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.
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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not to attribute qualities and intentions where they do not belong.
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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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