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• Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

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  Reality, Spirit, Photographer

  Ansel Adams, Nancy Wynne Newhall, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (1963*). “Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963”

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• We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman.

  Ansel Adams

  Moving, Wind, Serendipity

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.333, Hachette UK

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• You don't make a photograph just with a camera

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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• 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.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Mind, Finals

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• It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.

  Ansel Adams

  Beautiful, Quality, Sun

  Ansel Adams, Karen E. Haas, Rebecca A. Senf (2005). “Ansel Adams: in the Lane Collection”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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• A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Negative, Moments

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• The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

  Ansel Adams

  Adventure, Artist, Photographer

  Ansel Adams (1975). “The role of the artist in conservation”

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• One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

  Ansel Adams

  Important, Pieces, Want

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• I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Believe, Assessment

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• The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.

  Ansel Adams

  Integrity, Sky, Quality

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• The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

  Ansel Adams

  Cameras, Photographer

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• The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.

  Ansel Adams

  Prosperity, Best Picture, Corners

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• It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Easy

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• There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

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  Art, Men, Quality

  Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: photographs”

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• The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.

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  Ocean, Rocks, Feelings

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• The craft of photography is the key to good images.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Keys, Crafts

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• I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Needs, Critics

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• 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.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Gun, Machines

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• Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Communication

  Ansel Adams (1962). “Basic Photo: Artificial-light photography”

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• No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

  Ansel Adams

  Nature, Work, Climbing

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Ansel Adams

  Believe, Artist, Next

  "The Negative". Book by Ansel Adams (Introduction to second edition), 1981.

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• To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

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  Photographer, Surface, Latent

  Ansel Adams, Nancy Wynne Newhall, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (1963*). “Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963”

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• 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.

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  Photography, Eye, Practice

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• I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

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  Photography, Simple, Effort

  "A Personal Credo". Essay by Ansel Adams (1943), first published in "American Annual of Photography," 1944; later published in "Photographers on Photography" edited by Nathan Lyons, 1966, and in "Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present" edited by Vicki Goldberg, 1988.

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• Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Attitude, Empathy

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.72, Hachette UK

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