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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
Ansel Adams
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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
Environmentalist
Mountaineer
Photographer
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University Teacher
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San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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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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The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
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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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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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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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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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I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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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I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.
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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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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
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You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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