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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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People
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself.
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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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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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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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You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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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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Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.
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Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price
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A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.
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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication factual and expressive.
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