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Ansel Adams' famous quote

tkamiya

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There is a very famous quote by the legendary Ansel Adams (that I can't recall the exact phrase)....

In this quote, he compared photography to music and basically said, the film is same thing as the sheet music but the printing is where performance happens.

Does anyone recall what exactly he said and where it was said?
Was that in "Negative"?
 
You might easily find the idea quoted in many ways. In the quote I found, he admitted that he said it often...

The Print, pg. 2.

"I have often said that the negative is similar to a musician's score, and the print to the performance of that score. The negative comes to life only when "performed" as a print."
 



"The negative is the score. The print is the performance."
~Uncle Ansel.
 
Thanks everybody. "The Print" then.
 
Adams said "the negative is just the score, the print is the performance"
 
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