Robert  Adams





Robert Adams

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

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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: 4.14 · 289 ratings · 29 reviews · 45 distinct works
Why People Photograph
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1996
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Beauty in Photography: Essa...
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions
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The New West: Landscapes Al...
4.53 of 5 stars 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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Along Some Rivers: Photogra...
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Los Angeles Spring
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Robert Adams: Summer Nights...
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What We Bought: The New Wor...
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Summer Nights (New Images B...
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2001
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denver: A Photographic Surv...
4.8 of 5 stars 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009
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Turning Back
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005
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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

“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

“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



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