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I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!

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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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by, for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us.
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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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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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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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