Robert Adams
“If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share – animation. They may or may not make a living by photography, but they are alive by it.
I think for example of a friend who, when I was a young man, sometimes took pictures along country roads while sitting half up out of the sun roof of his moving car, steeringwith his feet. You couln’t argue him out of this practice because the rationale was to him so clear – the view. And aparently he was meant to do it, because over the years he went on to assemble a vast photographic celebration of Colorado life. When I hear his voice on the phone now, full of avidity even in old age, I promise myself that I will take grand, unsafe pictures.”
Robert Adams in Why People Photograph, Aperture, 1994.
Robert Adams
Books and Gravures
Light
Working Along Freeways
“Robert Adams’s black-and-white photographs document scenes of the American West, revealing the impact of human activity on the last vestiges of wilderness and open space. An underlying tension in Adams’s body of work is the contradiction between landscapes visibly transformed or scarred by human presence and the inherent beauty of light and land rendered by the camera.”
Fonte: Art:21
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