Word: Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
Even though this post is about Ansel Adams, photographer and conservationist extraordinaire (and an accomplished pianist to boot), I am posting it under my literary category ("Word").
Here's why: while watching Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film by Ric Burns (brother of famed documentary filmmaker, Ken Burns), I was touched by some of Adams's quotes (like the one I have included below).
Several of the quotes in the documentary came from Ansel Adams: An Autobiography. It appears to have received good reviews for the most part--feel free to add yours.
Incidentally, this post also serves (albeit in a roundabout way) as an homage to fathers in anticipation of Father's Day this Sunday, June 19. The documentary noted above touchingly demonstrates what a wonderful father, Charles Adams, was to his son, Ansel, and shows Ansel's reverence for his father in return.
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"For the first time I know what love is; what friends are; and what art should be. Love is a seeking for a way of life; the way that cannot be followed alone; the resonance of all spiritual and physical things. Friendship is another form of love... more passive perhaps, but full of the transmitting and acceptances of things like thunderclouds and grass and the clean granite of reality. Art is both love and friendship and understanding: the desire to give. It is not charity, which is the giving of things. It is more than kindness, which is the giving of self. It is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is a recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the interrelations of these."
- Ansel Adams, 1937, Letter to A Friend
Here's why: while watching Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film by Ric Burns (brother of famed documentary filmmaker, Ken Burns), I was touched by some of Adams's quotes (like the one I have included below).
Several of the quotes in the documentary came from Ansel Adams: An Autobiography. It appears to have received good reviews for the most part--feel free to add yours.
Incidentally, this post also serves (albeit in a roundabout way) as an homage to fathers in anticipation of Father's Day this Sunday, June 19. The documentary noted above touchingly demonstrates what a wonderful father, Charles Adams, was to his son, Ansel, and shows Ansel's reverence for his father in return.
~~~
"For the first time I know what love is; what friends are; and what art should be. Love is a seeking for a way of life; the way that cannot be followed alone; the resonance of all spiritual and physical things. Friendship is another form of love... more passive perhaps, but full of the transmitting and acceptances of things like thunderclouds and grass and the clean granite of reality. Art is both love and friendship and understanding: the desire to give. It is not charity, which is the giving of things. It is more than kindness, which is the giving of self. It is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is a recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the interrelations of these."
- Ansel Adams, 1937, Letter to A Friend
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