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PublisherAperture Foundation, Incorporated

ISBN-101597115118

ISBN-139781597115117

eBay Product ID (ePID)3050418914

Product Key Features

Book TitleAmerican Silence: the Photographs of Robert Adams

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicIndividual Photographers / Monographs, General

Publication Year2021

IllustratorYes

GenrePhotography

AuthorSarah Greenough

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight72.1 Oz

Item Length11.2 in

Item Width9.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-934506

Dewey Edition23

Afterword byTempest Williams, Terry

Dewey Decimal779.36092

SynopsisFor fifty years, Robert Adams has made compelling, provocative, and highly influential photographs that show us the wonder and fragility of the American landscape, its inherent beauty, and the inadequacy of our response to it. American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams examines Adams's reverential act of looking at the world around him and the almost palpable silence of his photographs. It includes works that capture the sense of peace and harmony that the beauty of nature can instill in us, created through what Adams calls "the silence of light" of the American West (as seen on the prairie, in the woods, and by the ocean), as well as pictures that question our moral silence to the desecration of that beauty by consumerism, industrialization, and lack of environmental stewardship. The book features some 175 works from Adams's most important projects and includes pictures of suburban sprawl, strip malls, highways, homes, and stores, as well as rivers and skies, the prairie and the ocean. While Adams's photographs lament the ravages that have been inflicted on the land, they also pay homage to what remains., In this expansive monograph, Robert Adams' compelling and provocative photographs explore the profound questions of our responsibility to the land and the moral dilemmas of progress. Working in Colorado, California, and Oregon from 1965 to 2015, Adams photographed suburban sprawl, strip malls, highways, homes, and the land itself, seeking to reveal both the ravages we have inflicted on the land and its underlying, enduring beauty. His photographs of the western American landscape are imbued with a sense of the sacred. Adams transforms "the silence of light" he sees on the prairie, in the woods, and by the ocean into pictures that not only capture that beauty but can also question our own silent complicity in its desecration by consumerism, industrialization, and the lack of environmental stewardship. This substantial body of work-passionate but restrained, respectful but outraged-is united by the reverential way Adams looks at the world around him, and the almost palpable silence that permeates his art. Copublished by the National Gallery of Art and Aperture, Sales Points The first in-depth examination of the evolution of Robert Adams's art, edited by Sarah Greenough and accompanying a major exhibition by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Draws on a previously unpublished archive of personal papers and correspondence, contextualized by Adams's personal reflections An afterword by Terry Tempest Williams explores Adams's work, nature, and our place in the American West Additional Comp Titles Richard Misrach: Petrochemical America . 9781597112772, $39.95 USD (Aperture, 2014) Robert Adams: Los Angeles Spring . 9783958296824, $95.00 USD (Steidl, Forthcoming February 2022) Robert Adams: Standing Still . 9781881337522, $35.00 USD (Fraenkel Gallery, 2021) Robert Adams: A Parallel World . 9781881337515, $35.00 USD (Fraenkel Gallery, 2021) Robert Adams: Cottonwoods . 9783958290969, $50.00 USD (Steidl, 2018) Robert Adams: Perfect Places, Perfect Company . 9783958291690, $85.00 USD (Steidl, 2018); published in 1988 by Aperture as Perfect Times, Perfect Places . Robert Adams: Eden . 9783958296817, $50.00 USD (Steidl, Forthcoming February 2022)

LC Classification NumberTR660.5