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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
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San Francisco County
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Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it.
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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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A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
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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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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.
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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 either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.
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I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
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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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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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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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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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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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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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