Quotes by Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams

…one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white… in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

Black And White

Color

Photography

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Knowing

Photographer

Photography

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

Feels

Photographer

Photography

A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

Moments

Negative

Photography

As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.

Emotional

Lakes

Spiritual

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

Feelings

Growing

Meaningful

At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country’s wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature’s monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.

America

Country

Skills

Bad weather makes for good photography.

Good Photography

Photography

Weather

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.

Discovery

Helping

World

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

Justified

Photographer

Technique

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Abstract

Adventure

Air

America

Appreciation

Art

Artist

Assessment

Attitude

Beautiful

Believe

Black And White

Cameras

Chance

Character

Children

Color

Communication

Confidence

Conservation

Country

Creative

Creativity

Critics

Dedication

Degrees

Destiny

Disappointment

Discovery

Dream

Dust

Easy

Eight

Emotional

Empathy

Environmental

Erosion

Etching

Expression

Eye

Fall

Fate

Feelings

Feels

Fighting

Firsts

Games

Giving

Gone

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Quotes by Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams

…one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white… in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

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

A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.

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

Bad weather makes for good photography.

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.

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

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