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
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.
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Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.