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Ansel Adams

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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.


— Ansel Adams


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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.


— Ansel Adams


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


— Ansel Adams


#care #dodging #establishing #god #made

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.


— Ansel Adams


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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.


— Ansel Adams


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The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.


— Ansel Adams


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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.


— Ansel Adams


#creative works #exists #grand #human #human spirit

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.


— Ansel Adams


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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.


— Ansel Adams


#composer #differs #each #negative #performance

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.


— 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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