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I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

Robert Adams

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Robert Adams
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Photographer
Orange
New Jersey
Robert Hickman Adams
Robert ii Adams
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Giving
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I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.
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Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with awe.
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I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they must photograph, things they have to try to shoot even before they master the intricacies of making dye transfer prints.
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When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.
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Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive.
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Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded of life's passing, while by the ocean's beauty we accept it, in a hope we cannot explain.
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Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.
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The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.
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If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not make a living by photography, but they are alive by it.
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I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of philosophy, and it leaves the philosopher with the task of grasping natures or essences (among other things).
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The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.
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You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.
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Whatever power there is in the urban pictures is bound to the closeness with which they skirt banality. For a shot to be good — suggestive of more than just what it is — it has to come perilously near being bad, just a view of stuff.
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When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you.
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History does not unfold: it piles up.
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Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end the place I wanted to be was outside in the light.
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Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.
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Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them the most fully truthful expression of their vision... as Robert Frost told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant, 'You want me to say it worse?'
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The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.
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The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.
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