Tag: Robert Adams
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"Perfect Uncertainty – Robert Adams and the American West" (2002)
Link: Robert Adams is preeminent among the many photographers who have concerned themselves with the urban development of the once-wild lands of the American West. He began to photograph on the Colorado high plains in 1965, and the subjects of his broad body of work have included the spreading of tract houses along the Rockies;…
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12 Photographers on How They Conceptualize Their Work
12 Photographers on How They Conceptualize Their Work What comes first–the idea for a project, or the images themselves? via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/12-photographers-concept-photowork/ Over the course of her career, curator and lecturer Sasha Wolf has heard countless young photographers say they often feel adrift in their own practices, wondering if they are doing it…
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Robert Adams Interviewed – Thomas Weski, John Szarkowski, Shooting 450 Rolls of Film in Denver – AMERICAN SUBURB X
Robert Adams Interviewed – Thomas Weski, John Szarkowski, Shooting 450 Rolls of Film in Denver @ Robert Adams “I shot about 450 rolls of film, all up and down the Front Range, mostly in the Denver area, though. And the work from that sat under—I printed it all and mounted every print, but it sat…
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Dispatches From a Ruined Paradise – The New York Times
Dispatches From a Ruined Paradise For more than four decades, Robert Adams’s landscape photographs have reminded us of what has been lost in America, and what endures. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/magazine/dispatches-from-a-ruined-paradise.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Robert Adams’s succinct preface to his 2010 book of photographs “What Can We Believe Where?” begins with uplift: “In common with many photographers,” he writes, “I…
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A Closer Look — The Place We Live
A Closer Look — The Place We Live from the book The Place We Live A few weeks ago my pal Jonathan Blaustein wrote a ” non-review ” of Robert Adams’ The Place We Live ,… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2012/02/closer-look-place-we-live.html But by God, I can’t stop picking up The Place We Live, and it’s my turn to write…
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Robert Adams wins 2009 Hasselblad Award – Photo-Eye
CLICK NOTE: At first I thought that photo of the award hand-off is so awful… I’d better find something better. Then I thought, no, it’s so bad it’s awesome! From photo-eye: More info can be found on the Hasselblad Foundation website including the transcript from the live chat with Robert Adams that took place earlier…
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5B4: The New West by Robert Adams Aperture reissue
Looking through the new Aperture edition of Robert Adams perfect book The New West, I now realize that Adams, at the same time, was forming his critique of suburban sprawl within the communities and ideals of families like my own. Check it out here.