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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
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
Ansel E. Adams
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All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is.
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Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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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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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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We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
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Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price
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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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There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
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