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Ansel Adams and landscape photography
During the quarter century between the late twenties and the early fifties, the photographer Ansel Adams made tens of thousands of negatives, and completed many hundreds of photographs, of the American landscape. Most of them were made in the continental United States, west of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Most of that majority were probably made in his home state of California, and perhaps most of those in Yosemite Valley, or in the High Sierra that guarded the Valley on the east. Yosemite and the High Sierra constituted the place he knew and loved best. Perhaps it was the thing he knew and loved best.
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Quest for Color by James L. Enyeart
It will be of no little surprise to the public and scholars alike that Ansel Adams made more than three thousand color transparencies. He is, of course, known for his blackÐandÐwhite photographyÑ elegant, silverÐladen tableaux of natureÑwhich changed American landscape photography from being essentially documentary and derivative of nineteenthÐcentury painting to an expression of purely photographic drama and effect. His unique vision and technical virtuosity inspired a school of followersÑstudents, imitators, and admirersÑwho make up the largest, most coherent photographic audience of this century.
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The Language of Photography
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed, and is, thereby, a true manifestation of what one feels about life in its entirety. This visual expression of feeling should be set forth in terms of a simple devotion to the medium. It should be a statement of the greatest clarity and perfection possible under the conditions of its creation and production.
-Ansel Adams
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