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The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
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
Pianist
University Teacher
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San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price
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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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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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All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is.
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I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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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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