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.
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer—and often the supreme disappointment.
A photograph is usually looked at—seldom looked into.
Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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)