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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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University Teacher
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San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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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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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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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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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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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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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.
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It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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