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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.
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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I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.
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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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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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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A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
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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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Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication factual and expressive.
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It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
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I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
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I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.
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