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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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Photographer
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University Teacher
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San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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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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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.
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To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.
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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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The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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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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You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
Ansel Adams
I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.
Ansel Adams
