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All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

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 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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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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 (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
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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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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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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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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 believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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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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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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This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
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