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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
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I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
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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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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
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I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.
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My wife - she could help me get the negs out!
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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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To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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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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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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