Ansel Adams
[Photographer, b. 1902, San Francisco, d. 1984, Carmel, California.]
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.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer—and often the supreme disappointment.
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A photograph is usually looked at—seldom looked into.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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You bring to photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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What you’ve got are not photographers. They’re a bunch of sociologists with cameras.
(To Roy Stryker, head of the photographers of the Farm Security Administration) ![](/images/rdquo.gif)