{"product_id":"robert-adams-why-people-photograph-selected-essays-and-reviews","title":"Robert Adams: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA now classic text on the art, \u003ci\u003eWhy People Photograph\u003c\/i\u003e gathers a selection of essays by the great master photographer Robert Adams, tackling such diverse subjects as collectors, humor, teaching, money and dogs.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdams also writes brilliantly on Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Laura Gilpin, Judith Joy Ross, Susan Meiselas, Michael Schmidt, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Eugène Atget. The book closes with two essays on \"working conditions\" in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West, and the essay \"Two Landscapes.\" Adams writes: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Adams, Robert Adams (Author)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Aperture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780893816032\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 189\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.28h x 5.53w x 0.64d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdams, Robert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eRobert Adams\u003c\/b\u003e (born in Orange, New Jersey, 1937), one of America's foremost living photographers, has spent decades considering and documenting the landscape of the Amer-ican West and the ways it has been altered, disturbed, or destroyed by humankind. A professor of English before turn-ing to photography, Adams is also a skilled writer and acute thinker on aesthetic questions. He is recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Deutsche B?rse Photography Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Adams's work has been shown widely, including in major exhibitions at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; Phil-adelphia Museum of Art; and Museum of Modern Art, New York. His other Aperture books include \u003ci\u003eBeauty in Photography\u003c\/i\u003e; (first edition, 1981; second edition, 1996; reissued 2023), \u003ci\u003eSummer Nights\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), \u003ci\u003eWhy People Photograph\u003c\/i\u003e (1994, reissued 2023), \u003ci\u003eAlong Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eSummer Nights, Walking\u003c\/i\u003e (2009, copublished with Yale Uni-versity Art Gallery), and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams\u003c\/i\u003e (2021, copublished with the National Gallery of Art).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130872827978,"sku":"9780893816032","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0011\/8990\/4435\/files\/robert-adams-why-people-photograph-selected-essays-and-reviews-9780893816032.jpg?v=1749101353","url":"https:\/\/trnk-nyc.mom\/products\/robert-adams-why-people-photograph-selected-essays-and-reviews","provider":"TRNK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}