Ansel Adams

00:01:10 MAN: The reason that he is as important to us as I think he is

00:05:41 something that is not literally there

00:10:02 he almost looks kind of scary in some of them.

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00:18:00 for the stunning impact of another kind of music

00:21:58 It was a duality all his life.

00:26:04 "How often I wish

00:30:47 signaling a radical change in mood.

00:34:40 "is not going to translate...

00:38:34 TURNAGE: In 1930, he was barely a real photographer

00:42:44 and that's what Ansel aspired to be.

00:47:10 He talked a lot, a very great deal,

00:51:12 "What am I doing?"

00:55:04 Just every little bit of him was all about the beauty of nature

00:58:59 And she'd say,

01:03:06 quoting lines from the poet Robinson Jeffers.

01:07:25 "What perfect photography.

01:11:25 When he gets into the early '40s, he drops that horizon,

01:15:09 and in this particular case with Winter Sunrise,

01:19:10 NARRATOR: Every now and then, he wondered

01:23:18 Oh, my gosh, those are two of his 12 best pictures.

01:27:13 And I... I... I used to kind of kid him about it,

01:32:02 with the release of the Census of 1890,

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