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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.
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
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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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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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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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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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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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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