Robert Adams (photographer)

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Robert Adams, On Signal Hill, Overlooking Long Beach, 1983, gelatin-silver print, 9 x 11 inches

Robert Adams (born May 8, 1937) is an American photographer who came to prominence as part of the photographic movement known as New Topographics. He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in photography in 1973 and 1980, and he received the MacArthur Foundation's MacArthur Fellowship in 1994. In 2009, he received the Hasselblad Award for his achievements in photography. He is represented by the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco and the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.

Adams was born in the industrial town of Orange, New Jersey, relocating to Colorado as a teenager with his family. Adams became interested in documenting how the western landscapes of North America, once captured by the likes of Timothy O'Sullivan and William Henry Jackson, had been shaped by human influence. As part of the New Topographics in the 1970s, Adams approach to photographing these landscapes was to take a stance of apparent neutrality, refraining from any obvious judgements of the subject matter. His images are titled as documents, to establish his neutral position. However, in the words of John Szarkowski, Adams... "has, without actually lying, discovered in these dumb and artless agglomerations of boring buildings the suggestion of redeeming virtue." Adams's recent essays in Why People Photograph and Beauty in Photography make strong arguments for conservative and human approaches to making photography, writing clear criticism about photography, and the importance of encouraging responsible stewardship of the land.

Summer Nights
For about five years, beginning in 1974, Adams embarked on an experiment: he made a series of photographs at night—the opposite of the high-altitude daylight used in most of his previous photographs. The project brought an element of risk he had not experienced before. Passing motorists sometimes veered toward him on rural roadsides, and in urban centers police repeatedly questioned him about his activities.

Adams' archives are held at the Yale University Art Gallery, with which he is devising a large-scale retrospective of his work for touring around the USA.

Contents

[edit] Famous Photographs:

  • East from Flagstaff Mountain (1976).
  • Burning Oil Sludge North of Denver (1973).[1]

[edit] Selected books:

  • Questions for an Overcast Day, Matthew Marks Gallery (2007).
  • Time Passes, Steidl (2007).
  • Manzanita, Nazraeli Press (2006).
  • Interiors 1973-1974, Nazraeli Press (2006).
  • Along Some Rivers, Aperture, NY (2006).
  • Turning Back, Fraenkel Gallery, SF (2005).
  • Commercial Residential, Roth Horowitz, NY (2003).
  • Pine Valley, Nazraeli Press (2002)
  • Commercial Residential, Roth Horowitz, NY (2002)
  • Alders, Nazraeli Press, AZ (2002)
  • Boddhisattva, Nazraeli Press, AZ (2002)
  • Reinventing the West, Addison Gallery of American Art, MA (2002)
  • Sunlight, Solitude, Democracy, Home, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery / Reed College., Portland, OR (2002)
  • California, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (2000)
  • Eden, Roth Horowitz, NY (1999)
  • Notes for Friends, University Press of Colorado (1999)
  • I Hear the Leaves and Love the Light, Nazraeli Press (1999)
  • Beauty in Photography, Aperture, NY (1996)
  • West from the Columbia, Aperture, NY (1995)
  • Cottonwoods, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (1995)
  • What We Bought: The New World: Denver 1973-1974, Sprengel Museum Hannover (1995)
  • Listening to the River: Seasons in the American West, Aperture, NY (1994)
  • Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews, Aperture, NY (1994)
  • To Make It Home: Photographs of the American West, Aperture, NY (1989)
  • Perfect Times, Perfect Places, Aperture, NY (1988).
  • Los Angeles Spring, Aperture, NY (1985).
  • Summer Nights, Aperture, NY (1985).
  • Our Lives and Our Children: Photographs Taken Near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, Aperture, NY (1983).
  • Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values, Aperture, NY (1981).
  • From the Missouri West, Aperture, NY (1980).
  • Prairie, The Denver Art Museum, CO (1978).
  • Denver: a Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area, Colorado Associated Univ. Press, Boulder, CO (1977).
  • The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range, Colorado Associated Univ. Press, Boulder, CO (1974).
  • The Architecture and Art of Early Hispanic Colorado, Colorado Assoc. University Press, Boulder, CO (1974).
  • White Churches of the Plains, Colorado Assoc. University Press, Boulder, CO (1970).


[edit] Selected Individual Exhibitions:

  • Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “Trees 1965-2005”, 2007
  • Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, “On the Edge”, 2007
  • Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, “Questions for an Overcast Day”, 2007
  • Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, “Pine Valley”, 2006
  • Center for Creative Photography, Tucscon, AZ, “Turning Back”, 2006
  • The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, “Landscapes of Harmony & Dissonance”, 2006
  • Matthew Marks Gallery, NY, “Turning Back”, 2006
  • The Photographer’s Gallery, London, “Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2006” traveling to Berlin and Frankfurt, 2006
  • Fraenkel Gallery, SF, “Circa 1970”, 2005
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, “Turning Back”, 2005
  • Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, “Turning Back”, 2005
  • Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, “The Paradise”, 2004
  • Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton University, “Robert Adams: From the Missouri West”, 2004
  • Joseph Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany, “Robert Adams: The New West”, 2004
  • Tate Modern, London, “Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth Century Photograph”, 2003
  • Roth Horowitz, NY, “Commerical, Residential”, 2003
  • Matthew Marks Gallery, “No Small Journeys”, 2003
  • Yale University Art Gallery, “What We Bought, The New World”, 2002
  • National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway “Robert Adams: Places – People”, 2001
  • Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover MA, “Reinventing the West”, 2001
  • Reed College, Portland, OR, “Robert Adams: Sunlight, Solitude, Democracy”, 2001
  • Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, “True West”, 2001
  • Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “California”, 2000
  • Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, “California”, 2000
  • The Art Museum, Princeton University, NJ, “To the Mouth of the Columbia”, 1998
  • Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “What We Bought: The New World”, 1997
  • Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium, 1997
  • Columbia College, Chicago, IL, "Listening to the River", 1996
  • Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY, 1996
  • Musee d'Arte Moderne de St. Etienne, St. Etienne, France, "Our Lives and Our Children", 1996
  • Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "West from the Columbia", 1995
  • Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria, "Listening to the River", 1995
  • Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany, "What We Bought: The New World", 1995
  • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany, "Listening to the River", 1995
  • Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1994
  • Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany, "Listening to the River", 1994
  • Denver Art Museum, "At the End of the Colombia River", 1993
  • Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium, 1993
  • 1Centre d'Art Contemporain, Belguim, 1992
  • Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan, 1991
  • Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 1990
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1989
  • Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1987
  • Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 1987
  • Denver Art Museum, CO (traveling), 1986
  • California Museum of Photography, Riverside, 1986
  • Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "Summer Nights", 1985
  • Northlight Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 1985
  • Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, "Our Lives and Our Children . . .", 1984
  • Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, 1983
  • Castelli Graphics, New York, NY, 1981
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1981
  • Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1980
  • Atlanta Gallery of Photography, GA, 1980
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Prairie", 1979
  • Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB, 1977
  • Castelli Graphics, New York, NY, 1976
  • St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM, 1976
  • Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO, 1976


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