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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.
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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This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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We make images to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.
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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 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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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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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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.
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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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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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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In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
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You don't make a photograph just with a camera
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