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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!

Ansel Adams

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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
Environmentalist
Mountaineer
Photographer
Pianist
University Teacher
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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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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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.
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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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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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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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It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.
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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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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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My wife - she could help me get the negs out!
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
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