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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
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When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
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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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Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries just struggle along, then a new one comes along. There are certainly a great number of galleries. I think this argues well for the art but there are, of course, a lot of phonies in all the arts.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.
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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
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I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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