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The craft of photography is the key to good images.

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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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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When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
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I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.
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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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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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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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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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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not to attribute qualities and intentions where they do not belong.
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
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