ArtBabble: Robert Adams

Robert Adams: Working Along Freeways

Art21 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:55:57 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #041: Robert Adams with photographs in his Oregon studio.

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.

Robert Adams: Light

Art21 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:57:36 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #045: Robert Adams in his Oregon home.

Robert Adamss 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 Adamss 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.

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Robert Adams: Books & Gravures

Art21 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:33:40 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #002: Robert Adams with photogravure plates for Harney County, Oregon (1999-2003) in his Oregon studio.

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.