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Robert Adams (photographer)

American photographer (born 1937)

For other persons named Robert Adams, see Robert Adams (disambiguation).

Robert Adams (born 1937) is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West.^[1]^[2] His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s^[1] through his book The New West (1974) and his participation in the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape in 1975.^[1] He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Hasselblad Award.

Early life and education

Robert Hickman Adams was born on May 8, 1937, in Orange, New Jersey to Lois Hickman Adams and Ross Adams.^[1] In 1940 the family moved to Madison, New Jersey where his younger sister Carolyn was born. Then in 1947 they moved to Madison, Wisconsin for five years, where he contracted polio at age 12 in 1949 in his back, left arm, and hand but was able to recover. They moved one last time, in 1952, to Wheat Ridg

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Robert Adams was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1937. His refined black-and-white photographs document scenes of the American West of the past four decades, revealing the impact of human activity on the last vestiges of wilderness and open space. Although often devoid of human subjects, or sparsely populated, Adams’s photographs capture the physical traces of human life: a garbage-strewn roadside, a clear-cut forest, a half-built house.

An underlying tension in Adams’s body of work is the contradiction between landscapes visibly transformed or scarred by human presence and the inherent beauty of light and land rendered by the camera. Adams’s complex photographs expose the hollowness of the nineteenth-century American doctrine of Manifest Destiny, expressing somber indignation at the idea (still alive in the twenty-first century) that the West represents an unlimited natural resource for human consumption. But his work also conveys hope that change can be effected, and it speaks with joy of what remains glorious in the West.

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Robert Adams—Beauty in Photography

This is a straightforward little book of essays that is both very accessible and profound. Robert Adams is a well-known photographer of the American West and was an exhibitor in the New Topographics show that influenced the course of contemporary landscape photography.

Speaking about beauty in art has become somewhat taboo, so it was refreshing to read a defence by an established artist. It is also helpful that Adams provides examples from his own work and the works of others to make his points—it is clear that his idea of beauty is neither saccharine nor sentimental. Instead, he sees beauty in those works of art that reveal form, an order or coherence that underlies all things. I was concerned at first that ‘order’ or ‘coherence’ might be construed in an overly rigid, traditional way, but this was not the case: there is plenty of allowance for scope, diversity and ‘newness.’

Some highlights for me:

“Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities—geography, autobiography, and metaphor.” (Adams, 1996: 14)

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