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
photography negative score
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
believe artist next
I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them.
photography accessories gadgets
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value...
eye creative innovation
I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
photography creative etching
The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
men self perfection
I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.
adventure artist photographer
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
may matter too-much
I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.
believe fate air
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
photography black-and-white reality
Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.
art looks sometimes
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
art light giving
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
photography eye sight
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
photography expression imagination
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.