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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe 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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San Francisco County
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Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
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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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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
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The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
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The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
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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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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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