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A Photographic Journal of Re-Exploration Photographs by Robert Adams. Description: 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 So then, 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. PUBLISHED BY: Fraenkel Gallery/Matthew Marks Gallery FORMAT: Clothbound, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 234 pgs / 164 tritone. ISBN: 9781933045016 ISBN10: 1933045019 PUBLICATION DATE: 05/15/2005 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Photographs by Robert Adams. PUBLISHED BY: Roth Horowitz, LLC FORMAT: Hardcover, 9 x 8 in. / 20 pgs / 17 tritone. ISBN: 9781564660688 ISBN10: 1564660680 PUBLICATION DATE: 01/02/1999 AVAILABILITY: Temporarily out of stock. Check your local bookstore or museum shop for copies. Bookseller Price Code: SDNR30 |
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Photographs and Conversations By Robert Adams. 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. PUBLISHED BY: Aperture FORMAT: Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 96 pgs / 28 duotone. ISBN: 9781597110044 ISBN10: 1597110043 PUBLICATION DATE: 05/01/2006 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Photographs by Robert Adams. Summer Nights is a sequence of nightscapes photographed along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Adams's attention to the subtleties of extreme light and dark emphasizes his appeal to look again at places often overlooked. "What attracted me to the subjects at a new hour," he observes, "was the discovery of a neglected peace." PUBLISHED BY: Aperture FORMAT: Hardcover, 8.5 x 9.25 in. / 48 pgs / 40 reproductions throughout. ISBN: 9780893811419 ISBN10: 0893811416 PUBLICATION DATE: 06/15/2005 AVAILABILITY: Out of Print. Check the Stores tab to locate a shop that may have copies. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range 1968-1972 Photographs by Robert Adams. Description: "To what extent can we love the developing American West? We know the urgency of that question because bitterness has sometimes made us exiles. My first attempt to describe the region in a book (The New West, 1974) omitted pictures that might have helped. I am grateful now to be able to reproduce them. They record a geography that is still in some respects characteristic, one where we could do better but where the rest is faultless. At about the time I took the pictures I read an interview with Raoul Coutard, Jean-Luc Godard's cameraman. In it Coutard noted with gratitude that 'daylight has an inhuman faculty for always being perfect.' It is one of the mercies, I believe, by which each of us is allowed to live." --Robert Adams, from Commercial/Residential PUBLISHED BY: Roth Horowitz, LLC/PPP Editions FORMAT: Hardcover, 9 x 8 in. / 43 pgs / 40 tritone. ISBN: 9780971548015 ISBN10: 0971548013 PUBLICATION DATE: 06/02/2003 AVAILABILITY: Temporarily out of stock. Check your local bookstore or museum shop for copies. Bookseller Price Code: FLAT40 |
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Views by Robert Adams of the Los Angeles Basin, 1978-1983 Introduction by Robert Hass. Since the 1960's, Robert Adams has used his camera lens to document the changing landscape of the United States. Covering the turbulent period from 1978 to 1983, Robert Adams' photographs of the Los Angeles basin document a disintegration that is at once social and ecological. At the same time, however, they reveal a persistent verdancy and vitality in the landscape that contains a glimmer of hope. This hope that Adams shares with the viewer is much like the hope held out at the end of a classical tragedy--insistent, yet difficult to account for. In California we find a bird in a defoliated orchard, a suddenly clear day on a quiet road, the astonishing silhouette of a eucalyptus in smog--and we are left wondering how to explain these seemingly unreal moments.The images here constitute yet another chapter in the oeuvre of one of the most important landscape photographers of our time, building on and communicating with Adams' continuing contribution to the national dialogue about America's health and future--as well as his monumental contribution to contemporary photography. Printed in stunning tritones, this new monograph features a revelatory introduction by former United States Poet Laureate Robert Hass. PUBLISHED BY: Fraenkel Gallery/Matthew Marks Gallery FORMAT: Hardcover, 11.25 x 9.5 in. / 132 pgs / 57 tritone ISBN: 9781881337102 ISBN10: 1881337103 PUBLICATION DATE: 11/02/2000 AVAILABILITY: Out of Print. Check the Stores tab to locate a shop that may have copies. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Questions for an Overcast Day is a series of 33 photographs of young alder trees growing along the Oregon coastline near the artist's home. The series begins by focusing on the branches of the trees, and, progressing from one image to the next, narrows its focus, culminating with several images of a single leaf. The leaves on the trees appear perforated, the precise cause of which is unknown. The artist likens the particular pattern of erosion on each leaf to hieroglyphics, reading in them a unique "calligraphy of disaster." About them, Adams writes: What would account for the condition of the leaves-- drought, insects, rocky ground, disease, herbicide, wind? Are the leaves beautiful? As with the artist's earlier photographs--of suburban detritus, tract housing under construction and devastated, clear-cut forests--the viewer is invited to find beauty as it coexists with the imperfection, even destruction, of the present day. PUBLISHED BY: Matthew Marks Gallery/Fraenkel Gallery FORMAT: Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 / 74 pgs. / 33 tritone. ISBN: 9781880146460 ISBN10: 1880146460 PUBLICATION DATE: 02/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: FLAT40 |
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Foreword by John Szarkowski. 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. PUBLISHED BY: Aperture FORMAT: Hardback, 10 x 9 in. / 136 pgs / 56 duotone. ISBN: 9781597110600 ISBN10: 1597110604 PUBLICATION DATE: 05/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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