Ansel Adams Photographer

Gender: Male
Citizenship: United States
Born: Feb 20, 1902
Died: Apr 22, 1984

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.

With Fred Archer, Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs. Adams primarily used large-format cameras because their high resolution helped ensure sharpness in his images.

Adams founded the photography Group f/64 along with fellow photographers Willard Van Dyke and Edward Weston.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

truth

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

nature

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

being good

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

art & communication

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

art

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

environmental & government

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

being good

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

God

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

experience, time & wisdom

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

greatness

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

art

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

God

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

art