| Robert Adams: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews Contributor(s): Adams, Robert (Photographer), Adams, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0893816035 ISBN-13: 9780893816032 Publisher: Aperture OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2005 Annotation: Photographs, selected essays, and reviews by Robert Adams This critically acclaimed work brings us a new selection of poignant essays by master photographer Robert Adams. In this volume, Adams evinces his firm belief in the importance of art. Photographers "may or may not make a living by photography," he writes, "but they are alive by it." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Criticism - Photography | Individual Photographers - Essays |
| Dewey: 770 |
| LCCN: 94076843 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.53" W x 8.28" (0.68 lbs) 189 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Eug ne 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Adams, Robert: - Robert Adams is a major figure in New Topographics movement known for his photographs of the modern American West. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Spectrum International Prize for Photography, and the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, his many books include: From the Missouri West (1980), Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values (1981), Our Lives and Our Children (1983), Summer Nights, Walking (1985), Los Angeles Spring (1986), and Perfect Times, Perfect Places (1988). Adams's work has been widely exhibited, including in a major retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. |