Robert Adams
Born in 1937 · United States
What remains of the landscape as the city expands.
The story
Robert Adams turned to photography after studying literature. He observes transformations in the American West, particularly urban edges, roads and residential areas. The New West and his participation in New Topographics helped renew ways of looking at landscape. His images and writings hold environmental degradation together with attention to the beauty that can still be perceived.
Understanding the work
Look at traces of development without forgetting the light, trees and horizon. A frame can hold both a critique of the landscape and an attachment to a place.
Key works and series
The New West; Denver; Summer Nights; Cottonwoods.
Sources & further exploration
Works in collections.
10 recordsPhotographs to explore on museum and library websites, with titles, dates and processes. Each link opens the collection record and its image where one is available.
- MoMA · 1978-81
Untitled from the series Our Lives and Our Children: Photographs Taken near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant
Gelatin silver print
