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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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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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I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.
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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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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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Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.
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A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.
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My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
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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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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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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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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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My wife - she could help me get the negs out!
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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 have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
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Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
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