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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.

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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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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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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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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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 can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.
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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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I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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