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Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was 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, books, and the internet.

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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Photography, Humanity, Quality, Latent, See

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

Cameras, Good, Photographer, Photographs, Photography, Rules

Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries just struggle along, then a new one comes along. There are certainly a great number of galleries. I think this argues well for the art but there are, of course, a lot of "phonies" in all the arts.

Argues, Art, Course, Struggle, Thinking

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

Destiny, Experienced, Photography, Yosemite

Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.

Artist, Comfort, Photographers, Right, Security, World

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Art, Critics, Know, Needs

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

Abstract, Camera, Cameras, Photography, Strict

Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

Coincidence, Feeling, Feelings, Growing, Meaningful, Remember

The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges. . . You were within the portals of the temple. . . to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.

Earth, Hovers, Knowing, Magical, Ranges, Unions

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.

Art, Giving, Light, Spirit

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.

Black And White, Departure, Magic, Photography, Reality, White

I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

Built, Extracted, Interested

The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.

Feelings, Look, Ocean, Old, Rocks, World

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

Art, Concept, Ignorance, Image, Photography, Worse

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

Art, Easy, Photography, Take

We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people. . . The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.

Erosion, Forests, Games, Man, Men, Shrinking

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

Art, Grown, Mature, Museums, Photography, School

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

Emphasis, Justified, Photographer, Statement, Technique

There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.

Art, Artist, Begin, Events, External, Giving

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

Burning, Care, Establishing, Mistake, Photography, Tonal

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