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The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
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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Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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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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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
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