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
mind chance photograph
If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
thinking miracle mind
The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.
mind finals exposure
To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
across addicted advance continue doubt found hope interests last till
I never know in advance what I will photograph, ... I go out into the world and hope I will come across something that imperatively interests me. I am addicted to the found object. I have no doubt that I will continue to make photographs till my last breath.
autumn high
Autumn Moon, the High Sierra from Glacier Point,
ask convey eyes move perceptive personal print reactions simply statement subject trust visualize
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?
photography expression photographer
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels.
meaningful feelings growing
Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
photography cameras abstract
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
photography destiny firsts
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
art men expression
All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.
found-objects doubt world
I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.
photography men giving
It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.
prosperity best-picture corners
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.