Robert Adams
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born
May 08, 1937
gender
male
place of birth
Orange, New Jersey, The United States
genre
Arts & Photography
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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 En...more
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Why People Photograph by Robert Adams avg rating 4.02 — 53 ratings — published 1996 |
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Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values by Robert Adams avg rating 4.18 — 39 ratings — published 1989 |
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The New West by Robert Adams avg rating 4.54 — 13 ratings — published 2001 2 editions |
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Along Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversations by Robert Adams avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published 2006 |
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Los Angeles Spring (New Images Book) by Robert Adams avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published 1986 |
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What We Bought: The New World: Scenes from the Denver Metropolitan Area, 1970-1974 by Robert Adams avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2009 |
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Summer Nights (New Images Book) by Robert Adams avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2001 |
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Robert Adams: Summer Nights, Walking by Robert Adams avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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Denver: A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area, 1970-1974 by Robert Adams avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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Still Lives at Manzanita by Robert Adams avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2006 |
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"How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a little of their mode of life, a little of their time?
...if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space "in no time" is to have denied its reality..."
— Robert Adams
...if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space "in no time" is to have denied its reality..."
— 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
— Robert Adams
"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
— Robert Adams
