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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

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
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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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I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
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My wife - she could help me get the negs out!
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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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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 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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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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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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