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American silence : the photographs of Robert Adams / Sarah Greenough ; with afterword by Terry Tempest Williams.
LIBRA TR647 .A452 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenough, Sarah, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adams, Robert, 1937---Exhibitions.
- Adams, Robert.
- Adams, Robert, 1937-.
- Landscape photography--United States--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Landscape photography.
- Landscape photography--United States--21st century--Exhibitions.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 332 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
- Other Title:
- Photographs of Robert Adams
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Aperture, [2021]
- Summary:
- 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 Aperture and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
- Contents:
- A mystery greater than our failures / Sarah Greenough
- Plates : The Gift ; Our Response ; Tenancy
- The art of not looking away / Terry Tempest Williams.
- Notes:
- Exhibition dates: National Gallery of Art, Washington, May 29-October 2, 2022 -- Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, October 29, 2022-January 29, 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-313) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1597115118
- 9781597115117
- OCLC:
- 1233267556
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