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Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
Ansel Adams
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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
Environmentalist
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San Francisco County
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Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.
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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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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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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.
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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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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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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.
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When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
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For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
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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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