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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
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Photographer
Pianist
University Teacher
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San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by, for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us.
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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.
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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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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 usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
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To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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