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You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
Approximate author period: c. 1943 AD · modern
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- Ansel Adams
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- Approximate author period: c. 1943 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Ansel Adams, based on documented lifetime 1902 to 1984. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60809 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60809 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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