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A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.
Ansel Adams
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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
Environmentalist
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San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
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My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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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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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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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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We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.
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You don't take a picture, you make a picture.
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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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The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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The whole world is, to me, very much alive - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.
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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
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Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
Ansel Adams
