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Robert Adams: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Robert Adams: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Current price: $16.95
Publication Date: June 15th, 2005
Publisher:
Aperture
ISBN:
9780893816032
Pages:
189

Description

A now classic text on the art, Why People Photograph gathers a selection of essays by the great master photographer Robert Adams, tackling such diverse subjects as collectors, humor, teaching, money and dogs. Adams also writes brilliantly on Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Laura Gilpin, Judith Joy Ross, Susan Meiselas, Michael Schmidt, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Eug ne 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.