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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.

Ansel Adams

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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
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You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
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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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The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
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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 negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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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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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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Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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My wife - she could help me get the negs out!
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