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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
Pianist
University Teacher
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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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.
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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 know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.
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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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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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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
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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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Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
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The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
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It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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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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Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.
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