27 roads : photographs by Robert Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Robert, 1937- photographer, artist.

Contributor:

Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.

Fraenkel Gallery, publisher, host institution.

Standardized Title:

Photographs. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adams, Robert, 1937---Exhibitions.

Adams, Robert.

Adams, Robert, 1937-.

Landscape photography--West (U.S.)--Exhibitions.

Landscape photography.

Roads--United States--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

Roads.

Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions.

Photography, Artistic.

United States.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Exhibition catalogs.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

60 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 34 cm

Other Title:

Robert Adams : 27 roads

Twenty-seven roads : photographs by Robert Adams

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Fraenkel Gallery, [2018]

Summary:

The road has been a central motif in the work of Robert Adams (born 1937) since the beginnings of his life as a photographer in the late 1960s. '27 Roads' is the first publication to focus on this important aspect of his work, and is comprised of the artist's concise, poetic selection of images spanning almost five decades. Whether fast concrete highways, quiet cuts through dark forests, paved commercial strips or dusty tracks on a clear-cut mountainside, Adams' roads function as metaphors for solitude, connection or freedom. Adams writes, "Roads can still be beautiful. Occasionally they appear like a perfect knife slicing through a perfect apple, the better to show that two halves are one."

Notes:

Accompanies an exhibition at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, September 5-October 27, 2018.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781881337478

1881337472

OCLC:

1042081018