Ansel Adams Quotes
I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.
Adams, Ansel. Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984. Edited by Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Little, Brown and Company, 1988.
Selling alcohol and running saloons were against the law then in Kansas but there was no effort to enforce it anywhere in Kansas. Carrie Nation went into saloons and literally smashed the glasses, signs, mirrors and furniture with an ax. She smashed up the largest and most elegant saloon in Kansas and as jailed for it. She told the authorities this quotation and because of the publicity her jailing had caused, when she emerged an entire statewide and area movement had begun with Carrie as the leader.
Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed an exacting system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a deeply technical understanding of how tonal range is recorded and developed during exposure, negative development, and printing. The resulting clarity and depth of such images characterized his photography.
