
Prairie
Robert Adams(Author)
Yale University Press
2nd Edition
Published on 15. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
68 pages
978-0-300-18053-4 (ISBN)
Description
Since the 1970s, photographer Robert Adams (b. 1937) has chronicled the changing landscape of the American West, from the growth of cities like Denver to the seemingly unconquerable openness of the Great Plains-the subject of Adams's Prairie. The first edition of Prairie, published in 1978, is now a sought-after collector's item; this expanded volume will include all of those original images, along with new photographs selected and sequenced by Adams himself, many of which are being published for the first time. Informed by a dedication to ecological principles, Adams's photographs offer an unsentimental view of the American wilderness-paying tribute both to its natural beauty and to the infrastructure of life on the land: farmhouses, gravel roads, and furrowed fields. This future collector's item, with 45 tritone reproductions, stands as a monument to Adams's work, and a poignant reminder of the quiet but profound ways in which our habitation of the land alters it.
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Series
Edition
2nd REV and Expanded ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Illustrations
45 tritone illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 203 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-300-18053-4 (9780300180534)
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Persons
Robert Adams lives and works in Oregon. A major retrospective of his work, organized by the Yale University Art Gallery, is on tour through 2014.