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
intense-moments people cameras
The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
photograph feels
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
photography gratitude appreciation
The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.
prosperity best-picture corners
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
photography believe assessment
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.
photography eye thinking
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
photography cameras abstract
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
photography art reality
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
photography writing spectators
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
discovery world helping
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.
technique photographer justified
Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.
photography negative moments
A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
photography interesting honor
We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."
photography expression photographer
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels.