Ansel Adams
American · 1902–1984
Landscape photographer and environmentalist whose majestic black-and-white images of the American West helped establish photography as fine art.
Wikipedia ↗“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
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“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
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“The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.”
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“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
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“Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs.”
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“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
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“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
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“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
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“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”
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“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer — and often the supreme disappointment.”
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