Ansel Adams
[Photographer, b. 1902, San Francisco, d. 1984, Carmel, California.]
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
I actually feel that in the next few years—it won’t be very long—the electronic image is really going to be the medium in photography.
(1980)
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography—therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
One danger confronts the development of the photo-document—the danger of it becoming a tool of obvious propaganda. All art is delicate propaganda of some sort, but I do not feel that direct propaganda succeeds except in the injury to the aesthetic potentials.
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
