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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.
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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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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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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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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We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.
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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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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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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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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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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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While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel.
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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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A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.
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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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My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
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