A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
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- Attributed to
- Ansel Adams
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- "A Personal Credo" (1943), published in American Annual of Photography (1944), reprinted in Nathan Lyons, editor, Photographers on Photography (1966), reprinted in Vicki Goldberg, editor, Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Pres
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Photo: Pavel.shyshkouski · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · Portrait: J. Malcolm Greany (Public domain)
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