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Ansel Adams

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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.


— Ansel Adams


#content #focus #i #images #inadequate

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.


— Ansel Adams


#photography #art

You don't take a photograph, you make it.


— Ansel Adams


#make #photograph #take #you

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.


— Ansel Adams


#landscapes #photography #photography

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.


— Ansel Adams


#being #deepest #expresses #feels #fully

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.


— Ansel Adams


#inspirational #photography #timing #inspirational

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.


— Ansel Adams


#only #photographs #rules

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.


— Ansel Adams


#concept #fuzzy #image #nothing #sharp

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.


— Ansel Adams


#believe #everybody #paintings #people #photographs

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.


— Ansel Adams


#environment #fight #government #horrifying #our






About Ansel Adams

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His father bought a three-inch telescope and they enthusiastically shared the hobby of amateur astronomy visiting the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton together. C. In March 1963 Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall accepted a commission from Clark Kerr the President of the University of California to produce a series of photographs of the University's campuses to commemorate its centennial celebration.

Adams's photographs are reproduced on calendars posters and in books making his photographs widely distributed. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs and the work of those to whom he taught the system. With Fred Archer Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print.

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