About this title: Photographs, selected essays, and reviews by Robert Adams This critically acclaimed work brings us a new selection of poignant essays by master photographer Robert Adams. In this volume, Adams evinces his firm belief in the importance of art. Photographers "may or may not make a living by photography," he writes, "but they are alive by it."
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Aperture
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780893816032ISBN:0893816035
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Aperture
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780893816032ISBN:0893816035
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: APERTURE
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780893816032ISBN:0893816035
Description: Photographs, selected essays, and reviews by Robert Adams This critically acclaimed work brings us a new selection of poignant essays by master photographer Robert Adams. In this volume, Adams evinces his firm belief in the importance of art. Photogr... read more
"I've already talked about Adams in my previous review, but it's hard to get a sense of what makes him so special without reading him. So here's a few samples:
"At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect--a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known."
"Art does not deny that evil is real, but it places evil in a context that implies an affirmation; the structure of the picture, which is a metaphor for the structure of the Creation, suggests that evil is not final."
"There will come a time when we stop naming places for lake shores that aren't there, and attaching to names eastern suffixes like 'glen' and 'green'. And if we call them by names that are accurate, we may ultimately find it easier to live in them."
"Finally, there is the joy to be found in a landscape experienced with family and friends. There are days that become, in the urgent and hushed sharing of a wonderful place with someone else, as much as I expect to know of the world for which I dream. To hear one's name, and the invitation, spoken with the assurance you will together see the same gift--'Look'."
And, from Beauty in Photography:
"Our discouragement in the presence of beauty results, surely, from the way we have damaged the country, from what appears to be our inability now to stop, and from the fact that few of us can any longer hope to own a piece of undisturbed land. Which is to say that what bothers us about primordial beauty is that it is no longer characteristic."
"If, as a personal matter, I have chosen not to make color pictures, it is because I have remembered how hard it is to write good free verse, with which color photography has some similarities, both being close to what occurs naturally."
"THis collection of essays was not exactly what I was expecting. The title is very misleading, in my opinion. I was expecting a book about the idea of photography, instead I got a collection of essays mostly about some famous photographers."
"A collection of essays on photography, some of which are slightly related, others of which are not. There are some interesting insights and inspirations in some of the essays, but as a whole, I found the collection to be lacking. I had hoped to gain a better perspective on why people photograph and what makes for a classic artistic photograph, what makes photography in and of itself a great artistic medium, but didn't really find that here."
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