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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
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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
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Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.
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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.
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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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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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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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My wife - she could help me get the negs out!
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not to attribute qualities and intentions where they do not belong.
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Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.
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It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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