Quote

I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course Stieglitz. Stieglitz always considered photography to be an art form and is the father of the creative concepts of the twentieth century.

Ansel Adams

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Thought
Beginning
Europeans
Always
Century
Twentieth
Courses
Appreciation
Course
Considered
Creative
Lows
Father
Concepts
Art
Photography
Form
Except

More quotes by Ansel Adams

Image
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams
Image
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
Ansel Adams
Image
I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.
Ansel Adams
Image
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Ansel Adams
Image
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
Ansel Adams
Image
If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.
Ansel Adams
Image
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
Ansel Adams
Image
The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.
Ansel Adams
Image
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.
Ansel Adams
Image
The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
Ansel Adams
Image
Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.
Ansel Adams
Image
There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.
Ansel Adams
Image
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.
Ansel Adams
Image
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel Adams
Image
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.
Ansel Adams
Image
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams
Image
You don't take a picture, you make a picture.
Ansel Adams
Image
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
Ansel Adams
Image
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
Ansel Adams
Image
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
Ansel Adams