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Ansel Adams

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A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.


— Ansel Adams


#art-appreciation #photography #art

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.


— Ansel Adams


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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.


— Ansel Adams


#landscape #often #photographer #photography #supreme

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.


— Ansel Adams


#expression #photography #self-expression #art

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.


— Ansel Adams


#life #logic #sequence #life

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!


— Ansel Adams


#photography #photography

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.


— Ansel Adams


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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.


— Ansel Adams


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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.


— Ansel Adams


#come #domination #impose #instrument #love

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.


— 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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