Robert Adams (born May 8, 1937) is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the

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.Robert Adams
,

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, Chicago His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through his book ''The New West'' (1974) and his participation in the exhibition '' New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape'' in 1975. He has received two

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, a

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, the

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and the

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Early life and education

Robert Hickman Adams was born on May 8, 1937 in

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to Lois Hickman Adams and Ross Adams. In 1940 the family moved to

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where his younger sister Carolyn was born. Then in 1947 they moved to

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for five years, where he contracted polio at age 12 in 1949 in his back, left arm, and hand but was able to recover. They moved one last time, in 1952, to

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, a suburb of Denver, when his father secured a job in Denver. They moved to Colorado partly because of the chronic bronchial problems that he suffered from in Madison, New Jersey around age 5 as an attempt to help alleviate those problems. He continued to suffer from asthma and allergy problems. During his childhood, Adams often accompanied his father on walks and hikes through the woods on Sunday afternoons. He also enjoyed playing baseball in open fields and working with his father on carpentry projects. He was an active Boy Scout, and was also active with the Methodist church that his family attended. He and his father made several raft trips through

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, and during his adolescent years he worked at boys' camps at

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in Colorado. He also took trips on pack horses and went mountain climbing. He and his sister began visiting

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. Adams also learned to like reading. In 1955, he hunted for the last time. Adams enrolled in the

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in 1955, and attended it for his first year, but decided to transfer the next year to the

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in California where he received his B.A. in English in 1959. He continued his graduate studies at the

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and received his PhD in English Literature, in 1965. In 1960 while at Redlands, he met and married Kerstin Mornestam, a

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native, who shared the same interest in the arts and nature. Robert and Kerstin spent their first few summers together in Oregon along the coast, where they took long walks on the beach and spent their evenings reading.

Work

In 1963 they moved back to Colorado, and Adams began teaching English at

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in Colorado Springs. In 1963, Adams bought a 35 mm camera and began to take pictures mostly of nature and architecture. He soon read complete sets of ''

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'' and ''

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'' at the

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. He learned photographic technique from Myron Wood, a professional photographer who lived in Colorado. While finishing his dissertation, he began to photograph in 1964. In 1966, he began to teach only part-time to have more time to photograph. He met

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, the curator of photography at the

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, on a trip to New York City in 1969. The museum later bought four of his prints. In 1970, he began working as a full-time photographer. Critic

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, writing in ''

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'', said "his subject has been the American west: its vastness, its sparse beauty and its ecological fragility. . .What he has photographed constantly – in varying shades of grey – is what has been lost and what remains" and that "his work's other great subtext" is silence.

Publications

* ''White Churches of the Plains.'' Boulder, CO: Colorado Associated University Press, 1970. * ''The Architecture and Art of Early Hispanic Colorado.'' Boulder, CO: Colorado Associated University Press, 1974. * ''The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range.'' Boulder, CO: Colorado Associated University Press, 1974. * ''Denver: A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area.'' Boulder, CO: Colorado Associated University Press, 1977. * ''Prairie.'' Denver:

, 1978. * ''From the Missouri West.''

, 1980. * ''Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values.'' Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1981. * ''Summer Nights, Walking.'' Millerton, NY: Aperture; New Haven, CT:

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, 1982. * ''Our Lives and Our Children: Photographs Taken Near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant.'' Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1984. * ''Summer Nights.'' New York: Aperture, 1985. * ''Los Angeles Spring.'' New York: Aperture, 1986. * ''Perfect Times, Perfect Places.'' New York: Aperture. 1988. * ''To Make It Home: Photographs of the American West.'' New York: Aperture, 1989. * ''Cottonwoods.'' Washington D.C.:

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Press, 1995. * ''Listening to the River: Seasons in the American West.'' New York: Aperture, 1994. * ''Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews by Robert Adams.'' New York: Aperture. 1994; 2004. . * ''West from the Columbia: Views at the River Mouth.'' New York: Aperture, 1995. * ''Beauty in Photography.'' New York: Aperture, 1996. * ''What We Bought: The New World, Scenes from the Denver Metropolitan Area, 1970–1974.'' Hannover, Germany: Stiftung Niedersachsen, 1995. 2nd edition, New Haven, CT:

, 2009. * ''Eden.'' New York: Roth Horowitz, 1999. * ''I Hear the Leaves and Love the Light.'' Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli, 1999. * ''Notes for Friends: Along Colorado Roads.'' Boulder:

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, 1999. * ''California: Views by Robert Adams of the Los Angeles Basin 1978–1983.'' San Francisco:

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; New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2000. * ''Boddhisattva: A Gandharan Face.'' Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli, 2001. * ''Alders.'' Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli, 2002. * ''Sunlight, Solitude, Democracy, Home.'' Portland, OR: Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery,

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, 2002. * ''Commercial Residential.'' New York: Roth Horowitz, 2003. * ''No Small Journeys: Across Shopping Center Parking Lots, Down City Streets, 1979–1982.'' New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2003. * ''Pine Valley.'' Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli, 2005. * ''A Portrait in Landscapes.'' Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli, 2005. * ''Turning Back: A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration.'' San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery; New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2005. * ''Along Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversation.'' New York: Aperture. 2006. * ''Interiors 1973–1974.'' Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli, 2006. * ''Still Lives at Manzanita.'' Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli, 2006. * ''Questions for an Overcast Day.'' Matthew Marks Gallery, New York; San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2007. * ''Time Passes.'' Paris: Foundation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, 2007. * ''Close at Hand.'' Revere, PA: Lodima, 2008. * ''Denver: A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area, 1970–1974.'' Rev. edition, New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery. 2009. * ''Summer Nights, Walking: Along the Colorado Front Range, 1976–1982.'' New York: Aperture; New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery. 2009. * ''Tree Line: Hasselblad Award 2009.'' Göteborg, Sweden:

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; Göttingen, Germany:

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, 2010. * ''Gone? Colorado in the 1980s.'' Göttingen, Germany: Steidl 2010. * ''What Can We Believe Where? Photographs of the American West,'' New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery. 2010. * ''The Place We Live, a Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964–2009.'' New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery. 2010. * ''Sea Stories.'' New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery. 2011. * ''This Day: Photographs from Twenty-Five Years, The Northwest Coast.'' New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery. 2011. * ''Light Balances & ON Any Given Day in Spring.'' New York: Matthew Marks Gallery; San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2012. * ''Prairie.'' New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery. 2012. * ''Skogen.'' New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery. 2012. * ''The Question of Hope: Photographs in Western Oregon.'' Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2013. . The colophon says "Published on the occasion of the exhibition "The Question of Hope: Robert Adams in Western Oregon," organized by the Portland Art Museum, September 7, 2013 – January 5, 2014". Essay by Julia Dolan. * ''Art Can Help.'' New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery. 2017. * ''American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams''. New York: Aperture, 2021. Photographs by Adams. Authored by Sarah Greenough. . With an afterword by

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Exhibitions

*1975: ''

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: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape,'' International Museum of Photography,

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, Rochester, New York, January 1975. Curated by William Jenkins. Included work by Adams, Lewis Baltz,

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, John Schott,

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and Henry Wessel, Jr. *1989:

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. Mid-career retrospective. *2005–2006: ''Turning Back,''

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, Munich, Germany, 2005;

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, San Francisco, 2005; Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 2006;

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, Tucson. *2008, Rencontres d'Arles festival, Arles, France. *2011: ''Landscape with Path: Nebraska State Highway 2,'' High Line Park, New York. *2010–2014: ''The Place We Live, a Retrospective Selection of Photographs.'' Retrospective.

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, British Columbia, 2010–2011;

, 2011–2012;

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, 2012;

, New Haven, Connecticut, 2012;

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, Madrid, 2013; , Quadrat, Bottrop, Germany, 2013;

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, Paris, 2014;

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, Switzerland, 2014. *2012: ''On Any Given Day in Spring and'' ''Light Balances'', Matthew Marks Gallery, New York *2015: ''Green/Gray: Photographs in the Los Angeles Basin,'' Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles *2018: ''A Right to Stand'', Fondation A Stichting, Brussels. Traveled to

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, Paris (catalogue) *2022: ''American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams'',

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, Washington, D.C.

Collections

Adams' work is held in the following public collections: *

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, Portland, OR *

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, Milwaukee, WI *

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, New York *

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, New York *

, Denver, CO *

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, Fort Worth, TX * Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT *

, New Haven, CT *

, Washington, D.C. *

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, Philadelphia, PA

Awards

*1973: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. *1973: Photographer's Fellowship from the

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. *1978: Photographer's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. *1980: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. *1982: Peer Award from The Friends of Photography, San Francisco. *1987: Charles Pratt Memorial Award. *1994:

from the

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. *1995: Spectrum International Prize for Photography from the Foundation of Lower Saxony. *2006:

for the exhibition ''Turning Back'' at

, Munich, Germany. *2009:

*2014: Elected to

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*2020: Induction into the

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References

External links

* – hosted at the

site
Adams at Masters of Photography

Adams photographs taken at twilight
as shown at the

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