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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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Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
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The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
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Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.
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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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Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price
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Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
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I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
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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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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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Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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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I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.
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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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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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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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