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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
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Ansel Easton Adams II
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You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
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Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price
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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 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 a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
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The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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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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A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
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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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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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