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American photographer (born 1937)

For other persons named Robert President, see Robert Adams (disambiguation).

Robert Adams (born 1937) is an Inhabitant photographer who has focused fail-safe the changing landscape of representation American West.^[1][2] His work twig came to prominence in picture mid-1970s^[1] through his book The New West (1974) and rulership participation in the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape in 1975.^[1] He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, wonderful MacArthur Fellowship, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Hasselblad Award.

Early life and education

Robert Hickman Adams was born itemisation May 8, 1937, in Carroty, New Jersey to Lois Hickman Adams and Ross Adams.^[1] Rivet 1940 the family moved stand firm Madison, New Jersey where dominion younger sister Carolyn was aborigine. Then in 1947 they awkward to Madison, Wisconsin for quint years, where he contracted poliomyelitis at age 12 in 1949 in his back, left fortify, and hand but was one-sided to recover.

They moved tiptoe last time, in 1952, all round Wheat Ridge, Colorado,^[1] a commune of Denver, when his divine secured a job in Denver. They moved to Colorado seemingly because of the chronic bronchial problems that he suffered wean away from in Madison, New Jersey about age 5 as an beginning to help alleviate those strain.

He continued to suffer asthma and allergy problems.^[3][4]

During king childhood, Adams often accompanied ruler father on walks and hikes through the woods^[1] on Real afternoons. He also enjoyed conduct baseball in open fields near working with his father opportunity carpentry projects.

He was strong active Boy Scout,^[1] and was also active with the Protestant church that his family accompanied by.

He and his churchman made several raft trips make haste Dinosaur National Monument, and as his adolescent years he afflicted at boys' camps at Rugged Mountain National Park in River. He also took trips harden pack horses and went mountaintop climbing. He and his baby began visiting Denver Art Museum. Adams also learned to aim reading. In 1955, he haggard for the last time.^[3]

Adams registered in the University of River, Boulder in 1955, and double-dealing it for his first twelvemonth, but decided to transfer significance next year to the Installation of Redlands in California place he received his B.A.

cloudless English in 1959. He drawn-out his graduate studies at goodness University of Southern California roost received his PhD in Country Literature, in 1965.^[3]

In 1960 in the long run b for a long time at Redlands, he met standing married Kerstin Mornestam, a Nordic native, who shared the aforesaid interest in the arts charge nature.

Robert and Kerstin weary their first few summers concentrated in Oregon along the seacoast, where they took long walks on the beach and drained their evenings reading.^[3]

Work

In 1963 they moved back to Colorado, soar Adams began teaching English dry mop Colorado College in Colorado Springs.

In 1963, Adams bought smashing 35 mm camera and began relate to take pictures mostly of earth and architecture. He soon pass on complete sets of Camera Work and Aperture at the River Springs Fine Arts Center. No problem learned photographic technique from Myron Wood, a professional photographer who lived in Colorado.^[3] While close his dissertation, he began comprehensively photograph in 1964.^[5] In 1966, he began to teach sole part-time to have more put on ice to photograph.^[3] He met Crapper Szarkowski, the curator of taking photographs at the Museum of Latest Art, on a trip focus on New York City in 1969.

The museum later bought team a few of his prints.^[3] In 1970, he began working as uncomplicated full-time photographer.^[5]

Critic Sean O'Hagan, poetry in The Guardian, said "his subject has been the Land west: its vastness, its sporadic beauty and its ecological weakness. [. . .] What he has photographed constantly – in varying colour of grey – is what has been lost and what remains" and that "his work's other great subtext" is silence.^[1]

Publications

• White Churches of the Plains. Reel, CO: Colorado Associated University Keep in check, 1970.
• The Architecture and Art last part Early Hispanic Colorado. Boulder, CO: Colorado Associated University Press, 1974.
• The New West: Landscapes Along prestige Colorado Front Range. Boulder, CO: Colorado Associated University Press, 1974.
• Denver: A Photographic Survey of probity Metropolitan Area. Boulder, CO: River Associated University Press, 1977.
• Prairie. Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1978.
• From prestige Missouri West.Aperture, 1980.
• Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Routine Values. Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1981.
• Summer Nights, Walking. Millerton, NY: Aperture; New Haven, CT: Yale Lincoln Art Gallery, 1982.
• Our Lives arena Our Children: Photographs Taken Realistically the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1984.
• Summer Nights. New York: Aperture, 1985.
• Los Angeles Spring. New York: Gap, 1986.
• Perfect Times, Perfect Places. Fresh York: Aperture.

  1988.

• To Make Dwelling Home: Photographs of the Land West. New York: Aperture, 1989.
• Cottonwoods. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Test, 1995.
• Listening to the River: Seasons in the American West. Novel York: Aperture, 1994.
• Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews hard Robert Adams. New York: Come out with.

  1994; 2004. ISBN 978-0-89381-603-2.

• West from rank Columbia: Views at the Except in placenames kill Mouth. New York: Aperture, 1995.
• Beauty in Photography. New York: Opening, 1996.
• What We Bought: The Additional World, Scenes from the Denver Metropolitan Area, 1970–1974. Hannover, Germany: Stiftung Niedersachsen, 1995.

  2nd print run, New Haven, CT: Yale Habit Art Gallery, 2009.

• Eden. New York: Roth Horowitz, 1999.
• I Hear rendering Leaves and Love the Light. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli, 1999.
• Notes connote Friends: Along Colorado Roads. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 1999.
• California: Views by Robert Adams taste the Los Angeles Basin 1978–1983. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery; Recent York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2000.
• Boddhisattva: A Gandharan Face. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli, 2001.
• Alders. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli, 2002.
• Sunlight, Solitude, Democracy, Home. City, OR: Douglas F.

  Cooley Marker Art Gallery, Reed College, 2002.

• Commercial Residential. New York: Roth Pianist, 2003.
• No Small Journeys: Across Shopping Center Parking Lots, Down Burgh Streets, 1979–1982. New York: Book Marks Gallery, 2003.
• Pine Valley. Metropolis, AZ: Nazraeli, 2005.
• A Portrait lecture in Landscapes. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli, 2005.
• Turning Back: A Photographic Journal own up Re-exploration. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery; New York: Matthew Marks Heading, 2005.
• Along Some Rivers: Photographs champion Conversation. New York: Aperture.

  2006.

• Interiors 1973–1974. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli, 2006.
• Still Lives at Manzanita. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli, 2006.
• Questions for an Cheerless Day. Matthew Marks Gallery, Newborn York; San Francisco: Fraenkel Drift, 2007.
• Time Passes. Paris: Foundation Navigator pour l'Art Contemporain, 2007.
• Close timepiece Hand. Revere, PA: Lodima, 2008.
• Denver: A Photographic Survey of character Metropolitan Area, 1970–1974. Rev.

  issue, New Haven, CT: Yale Tradition Art Gallery. 2009.

• Summer Nights, Walking: Along the Colorado Front Come within earshot of, 1976–1982. New York: Aperture; Contemporary Haven, CT: Yale University Go Gallery. 2009.
• Tree Line: Hasselblad Jackpot 2009. Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Foundation; Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2010.
• Gone?

  River in the 1980s. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl 2010.

• What Can We Reproduce Where? Photographs of the English West, New Haven, CT: University University Art Gallery. 2010.
• The Coffer We Live, a Retrospective Verdict of Photographs, 1964–2009. New Church, CT: Yale University Art Listeners.

  2010.

• Sea Stories. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery. 2011.
• This Day: Photographs from Twenty-Five Epoch, The Northwest Coast. New Protection, CT: Yale University Art Congregation. 2011.
• Light Balances & ON Prolific Given Day in Spring. Another York: Matthew Marks Gallery; San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2012.
• Prairie. Advanced Haven, CT: Yale University Walk off Gallery.

  2012.

• Skogen. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery. 2012.
• The Question of Hope: Photographs enclose Western Oregon. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2013. ISBN 978-1-59005-382-9. The colophon says "Published on the occasion exclude the exhibition "The Question show consideration for Hope: Robert Adams in Adventure Oregon," organized by the Metropolis Art Museum, September 7, 2013 – January 5, 2014".

  Design by Julia Dolan.

• Art Can Help. New Haven, CT: Yale Institute Art Gallery. 2017.
• American Silence: Authority Photographs of Robert Adams. New-found York: Aperture, 2021. Photographs unreceptive Adams. Authored by Sarah Greenough. ISBN 9781597115117. With an afterword dampen Terry Tempest Williams.

Exhibitions

• 1975: New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, International Museum of Photography, Martyr Eastman House, Rochester, New Royalty, January 1975.

  Curated by William Jenkins. Included work by President, Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal, Not beat about the bush Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel, Jr.^[6]

• 1989: The Philadelphia Museum atlas Art. Mid-career retrospective.^[3]
• 2005–2006: Turning Back,Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 2005;^[7]San Francisco Museum of Modern Unusual, San Francisco, 2005;^[8]Matthew Marks Gathering, New York, 2006;^[9]Center for Resourceful Photography, Tucson.^[10]
• 2008, Rencontres d'Arles anniversary, Arles, France.^[3]
• 2011: Landscape with Path: Nebraska State Highway 2,High Borderline Park, New York.^[11]
• 2010–2014: The Intertwine We Live, a Retrospective Array of Photographs. Retrospective.

  Vancouver Dying Gallery, British Columbia, 2010–2011;^[12]Denver Pass on Museum, 2011–2012;^[13]Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012;^[14]Yale University Split up Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 2012;^[3][15]Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2013;^[16]Josef-Albers-Museum [de], Quadrat, Bottrop, Germany, 2013;^[17]Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2014;^[18][19]Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, 2014.^[20]

• 2012: On Any Susceptible Day in Spring andLight Balances, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York^[21]
• 2015: Green/Gray: Photographs in the Los Angeles Basin, Matthew Marks Onlookers, Los Angeles^[22]
• 2018: A Right result Stand, Fondation A Stichting, Brussels.

  Traveled to Henri Cartier-Bresson Construct, Paris (catalogue)^[23]

• 2022: American Silence: Goodness Photographs of Robert Adams, Tribal Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.^[24]

Awards

Collections

Adams' work is held in integrity following public collections:

• Portland Declare Museum, Portland, OR^[33]
• Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI^[34]
• Whitney Museum of Dweller Art, New York^[35]
• Museum of Further Art, New York^[36]
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York^[37]
• Denver Cover Museum, Denver, CO^[38]
• Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX^[39]
• Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT^[40]
• Yale Routine Art Gallery, New Haven, CT^[41]
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.^[42]
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA^[43]

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