"When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of……" — Robert Adams
"When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where in the world they will find pictures. Nobody does. Each photograph that works is a revelation to its supposed creator."
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78 Quotes by Robert Adams
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No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
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All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying…
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I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that…
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Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to…
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If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation.…
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There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who…
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Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their…
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...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so…
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Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring,…
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The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent…
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In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at…
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... If we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his camera by mule, and the person stepping…
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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
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