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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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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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The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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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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A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.
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...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.
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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
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The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.
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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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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
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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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