Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
ANSEL ADAMSPhotography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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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 craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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