I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
Ansel AdamsWith all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
Ansel AdamsThis profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
Ansel AdamsThe dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.
Ansel Adams