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 photographer feels
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
photography gun machines
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.
photography cameras photographer
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
photography powerful communication
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
photography photograph accidents
A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.
photography winning overcoming
I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.
photography art easy
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
photography real blazing
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
photography expression self
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
would-be levels saws
I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.
photography cameras photographer
You don't make a photograph just with a camera
moving fabric sometimes
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
dream photography moving
"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""
struggle world heroic
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.