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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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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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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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We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.
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I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
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The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
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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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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries just struggle along, then a new one comes along. There are certainly a great number of galleries. I think this argues well for the art but there are, of course, a lot of phonies in all the arts.
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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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You don't make a photograph just with a camera
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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.
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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 do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
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Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.
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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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