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All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
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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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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The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.
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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
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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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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.
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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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It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them.
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To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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