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, postersand in books
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with
photographs. When images become
inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
"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."
"Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your
camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile
is your museum."
"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."
"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression
and communications, offers an
infinite variety of perception, interpretation and
execution."
"A great photograph is one that fully expresses
what one feels, in the deepestsense, about what is being photographed."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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