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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
Ansel Adams
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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
Environmentalist
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San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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 believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
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I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.
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There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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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A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
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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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I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.
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