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
photography gun machines
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.
integrity sky quality
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.
photography black-and-white reality
Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.
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This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
photography years spinning-plates
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
photography photograph accidents
A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.
photography accessories gadgets
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value...
photography photographer feels
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
photography cameras photographer
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
photography keys crafts
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
photography simple effort
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.
photography years twelve
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
photography art soul
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!