"I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them."
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The Negative (1981), introduction to second edition
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Ansel Adams
1902 – 1984
US-amerikanischer Landschaftsfotograf
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