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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.

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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San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
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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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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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The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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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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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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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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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries just struggle along, then a new one comes along. There are certainly a great number of galleries. I think this argues well for the art but there are, of course, a lot of phonies in all the arts.
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In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
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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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I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
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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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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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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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