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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Ansel Adams

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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
Environmentalist
Mountaineer
Photographer
Pianist
University Teacher
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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You don't take a picture, you make a picture.
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My wife - she could help me get the negs out!
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The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
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It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself.
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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 know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...
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The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.
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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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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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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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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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