Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was a U.S. fine art photographer most famous for his wilderness landscapes.

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  • I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them.
    • The Negative (1981)

  • For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form ... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
    • Interview with Paul Hill (1975)

  • 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: America exhibition in the Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas

  • No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied — it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
    • Exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.

  • There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
    • The Essence of Photography (2008), Calumet Photographic
 
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