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If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.

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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Make
Good
Excites
Photograph
Chance

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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?
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Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it.
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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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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.
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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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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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I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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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 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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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 craft of photography is the key to good images.
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While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel.
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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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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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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 don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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