You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
ANSEL ADAMSImpression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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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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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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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.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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