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A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

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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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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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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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 am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.
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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 has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication factual and expressive.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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