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My wife - she could help me get the negs out!
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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I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
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You don't take a picture, you make a picture.
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If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.
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The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
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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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I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
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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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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
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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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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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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 is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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