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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

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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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
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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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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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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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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
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