Robert  Adams





Robert Adams

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in Orange, New Jersey, The United States
May 08, 1937

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Adams, Robert Hickman (1937-) American nature photographer

After earning a doctorate in English and becoming a college professor, Adams decided to shift careers and focus on his true love, photography, in 1970. Since then, he's made a name for himself with more than 20 books, mainly chronicling the, American West, particularly the Colorado landscape, in and around Denver. He attributes his affinity for the Western landscape to boyhood adventures such as hiking, river rafting, and camping. His black and white photographs of characteristically spare landscapes have brought him two National Endowment for the Arts Photograp...more


Average rating: 4.17 · 427 ratings · 36 reviews · 44 distinct works · Similar authors
Why People Photograph
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
Robert Adams: Beauty in Pho...
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions
The New West: Landscapes Al...
4.62 of 5 stars 4.62 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
Along Some Rivers: Photogra...
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2006
Robert Adams: Summer Nights...
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2010
What We Bought: The New Wor...
4.58 of 5 stars 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions
Los Angeles Spring
4.56 of 5 stars 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1986
denver: A Photographic Surv...
4.71 of 5 stars 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009
To Make It Home: Photograph...
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1989
Summer Nights (New Images B...
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2001
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“Teachers must, I discovered, have a gift to teach and the compulsion to use it. And faith. Anything less won't carry you through.”
Robert Adams

“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. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect - a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known.”
Robert Adams

“C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute. ”
Robert Adams



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