I have always admired photographs I've seen by Robert Adams but I never have done any research on him. His photographs remind me of some of Lee Friedlander's work. I think his landscapes are a good example of what I am looking to work on this semester.
Robert Adams is an American photographer and he is known for being part of the photographic movement called New Topographics. The New Topographic photographers avoided the 'subjective' themes of beauty and emotion and shared an apparent disregard for traditional subject-matter. They emphasized the 'objective' description of a location, showing a preference for landscape that included everyday features of industrial culture. This style, suggesting a tradition of documentary rather than formalist photography, is related to the idea of 'social landscape', which explores how man affects his natural environment.
Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones. - Robert Adams
"Photography Quotations by Robert Adams - American Photographer." Great Photography Quotes - Best Photographers Quotations. Web. 21 Sept. 2010.
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. - Robert Adams
"Photography Quotations by Robert Adams - American Photographer." Great Photography Quotes - Best Photographers Quotations. Web. 21 Sept. 2010.
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/adams/clip1.html
http://www.fraenkelgallery.com/
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