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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
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San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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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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The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
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In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
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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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We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.
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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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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 have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
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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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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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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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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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You don't make a photograph just with a camera
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You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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