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Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.

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 term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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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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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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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.
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I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
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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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The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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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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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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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