Robert Adams

               

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ROBERT ADAMS: SUMMER NIGHTS, WALKING
APERTURE/YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
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ISBN: 9781597111171 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 10/31/2009 | Awaiting stock

ROBERT ADAMS: SUMMER NIGHTS, WALKING
APERTURE
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ISBN: 9781597111294 | SDNR30
PUB DATE: 4/30/2010 | Awaiting stock

ROBERT ADAMS: THE NEW WEST
APERTURE
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ISBN: 9781597110600 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 5/1/2008 | In stock

ROBERT ADAMS: QUESTIONS FOR AN OVERCAST DAY
MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY/FRAENKEL GALLERY
U.S. $40.00 | CAN $40
ISBN: 9781880146460 | FLAT40
PUB DATE: 2/1/2008 | Awaiting stock

ROBERT ADAMS: ALONG SOME RIVERS
APERTURE
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ISBN: 9781597110044 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 5/1/2006 | In stock

ROBERT ADAMS: BEAUTY IN PHOTOGRAPHY
APERTURE
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ISBN: 9780893813680 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 6/15/2005 | In stock

ROBERT ADAMS: WHY PEOPLE PHOTOGRAPH
APERTURE
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ISBN: 9780893816032 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 6/15/2005 | In stock

ROBERT ADAMS: TURNING BACK
FRAENKEL GALLERY/MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY
U.S. $65.00 | CAN $65
ISBN: 9781933045016 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 5/15/2005 | In stock

          

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ROBERT ADAMS: SUMMER NIGHTS
APERTURE
U.S. $14.98 | CAN $14.98
ISBN: 9780893811419 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 6/15/2005 | Not available

ROBERT ADAMS: COMMERCIAL/RESIDENTIAL
ROTH HOROWITZ, LLC/PPP EDITIONS
U.S. $55.00 | CAN $55
ISBN: 9780971548015 | FLAT40
PUB DATE: 6/2/2003 | Not available

ROBERT ADAMS: CALIFORNIA
FRAENKEL GALLERY/MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY
U.S. $45.00 | CAN $45
ISBN: 9781881337102 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 11/2/2000 | Not available

ROBERT ADAMS: THE NEW WEST
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
U.S. $55.00 | CAN $55
ISBN: 9783883754611 | SDNR30
PUB DATE: 2/2/2001 | Not available

ROBERT ADAMS: EDEN
ROTH HOROWITZ, LLC
U.S. $75.00 | CAN $75
ISBN: 9781564660688 | SDNR30
PUB DATE: 1/2/1999 | Not available

Robert Adams

Robert Adams: The New West

Foreword by John Szarkowski.
Published by Aperture

Originally published in 1974, Robert Adams’ The New West signaled a paradigm shift in the photographic representation of American landscapes. Foregoing photography’s traditional role of romanticizing the Western landscape, Adams focused instead on the construction of tract and mobile homes, subdivisions, shopping centers and urban sprawl in the suburbs of Colorado Springs and the Denver area. Adams transmuted these zones with his minimalist vision of their austerity; as he has noted, “no place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.” Objective and direct, Adams’ photographs, rendered in his signature middle-gray scale, unsentimentally depict a despoiled landscape washed in the intense Colorado sunlight. Today The New West stands alongside Walker Evans’ American Photographs, Robert Frank’s The Americans and Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places in the pantheon of landmark projects on American culture and society. This second reissue of the classic publication has been recreated from Adams’ original prints, and will be released ahead of a major traveling exhibition that will launch in 2010. Foreword by John Szarkowski.

ROBERT ADAMS: THE NEW WEST
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Robert Adams: Along Some Rivers

Photographs and Conversations

Text by Richard B. Woodward.
Published by Aperture

Robert Adams, one of America's foremost living photographers, has spent decades considering and documenting the landscape of the American West and the ways it has been altered, disturbed, or destroyed by the hand of man. A professor of English before turning to photography, Adams is also a skilled writer and acute thinker on aesthetic questions. Aperture's previous bestselling collections of his essays, Beauty in Photography and Why People Photograph, assembled his thoughts on a range of subjects, including writing, teaching, photography's place in the arts and a host of fellow photographers. Along Some Rivers collects Adams's correspondence and conversations--some of which have never been published before--with writers and curators including William McEwan, Constance Sullivan and Thomas Weski. In so doing, it provides another point of entry, offering a portrait of the artist in debate and elucidating his thoughts on a number of his now legendary projects, including Cottonwoods and What We Bought. Adams also expounds on why, in his view, Marcel Duchamp has not been a helpful guide for art, and he discusses which filmmakers and painters have influenced him, which cameras he prefers and how he approaches printing his pictures. Along Some Rivers also includes a selection of 28 unpublished landscapes.

ROBERT ADAMS: ALONG SOME RIVERS
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Robert Adams: Beauty in Photography

Essays in Defense of Traditional Values

Essays by Robert Adams.
Published by Aperture

The eight essays in Beauty in Photography provide a critical appreciation of photography by one of its foremost proponents. The result is a rare book of criticism, alive to the pleasure and mysteries of true exploration.

ROBERT ADAMS: BEAUTY IN PHOTOGRAPHY
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Robert Adams: Why People Photograph

Selected Essays and Reviews

Text and essays by Robert Adams.
Published by Aperture

A now classic text on the art, Why People Photograph gathers a selection of essays by the great master photographer Robert Adams, tackling such diverse subjects as collectors, humor, teaching, money and dogs. Adams also writes brilliantly on Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Laura Gilpin, Judith Joy Ross, Susan Meiselas, Michael Schmidt, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Eugène Atget. The book closes with two essays on “working conditions” in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West, and the essay “Two Landscapes.” Adams writes: “At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”

ROBERT ADAMS: WHY PEOPLE PHOTOGRAPH
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Robert Adams: Turning Back

A Photographic Journal of Re-Exploration

Photographs by Robert Adams.
Published by Fraenkel Gallery/Matthew Marks Gallery

Turning Back: A Photographic Journal of Re-Exploration is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The narrative begins at the Pacific Ocean and moves eastward through what was formerly one of the world's great rain forests. Photographs at the center of the book report on the forest's destruction. Elsewhere they trace a search for hope. Two hundred years ago, Lewis and Clark reported finding in the American Northwest a vast forest of ancient evergreens. In Turning Back Robert Adams looks again at the region's trees, discovering evidence both of America's failure and of a continuing promise. President Jefferson's primary charge to Lewis and Clark was to prepare the way for American commerce. Today, historians still speculate about why, upon his return, Lewis lapsed into depression and apparently committed suicide. “Going east,” Adams suggests, “was more difficult than going west.” So what is the future? Turning Back documents two kinds of predictive evidence. On the one hand we observe the results of greed so unrestrained that they are indistinguishable from those of nihilism. On the other we see what still lives, whether by our design or neglect, or Providence; in these 164 pictures the tone is celebratory, as in a prayer book. From coastal landscapes populated with tourists to timber clear-cutting and small family farms in eastern Oregon, here we reflect on what was lost, what is retained, and what we value both regionally and as a people with a common history.

ROBERT ADAMS: TURNING BACK
$65.00 | In Stock: Order now or contact your local bookstore or museum shop.