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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
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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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There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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 negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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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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You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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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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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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