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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.
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 only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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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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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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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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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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
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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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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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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
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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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The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.
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The whole world is, to me, very much alive - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.
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