About Ansel Adams: Ansel Easton Adams 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, and books.
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in t...
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from witho...
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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.
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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.
A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.
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 bea...
Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
