Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adamswas an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, and books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth20 February 1902
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Ansel Adams quotes about
beautiful dream reality
The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
mind chance photograph
If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
lasts last-words depends
My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
writing quality etc
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.
negative score composer
The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
important pieces want
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
heart rocks quality
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.
cameras photographer
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
eight play piano
The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.
photography cameras photographer
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
wife helping help-me
My wife - she could help me get the negs out!
glowing land sky
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.
art light expression
It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself.
technique photographer justified
Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.