Robert Adams

 

 

 

Southwest from the South Jetty, 1990-95

gelatin silver print

16 x 20 in. (40.64 x 50.8 cm)

Contemporary Council Purchase.
© Robert Adams, Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.

 

 

 

Robert Adams (American, b. 1937)

Born in New Jersey and raised in Colorado, Robert Adams received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1965. He began to photograph nature and architecture in 1967, later studying with Myron Wood, a professional photographer in Colorado Springs. Adams' landscape photographs concern man's encroachment on nature's wilderness, juxtaposing meadows, aspen groves, and open plains with vistas of fences, signs, and garbage. He received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, in 1973 and 1978, and the Guggenheim Foundation, in 1973 and 1980; and has written such books as Why People Photograph (1994) and Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values (1996). The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles County Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth, and the Colorado History Museum, Denver has exhibited Adams’s work.