A01=Robert Adams
artistic photography
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beauty in photography
camera
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creative expression
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landscape phtography
New Topographics movement
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photography as art
photography essays
Product details
- ISBN 9780893813680
- Weight: 220g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2004
- Publisher: Aperture
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The eight essays in Beauty in Photography provide a critical appreciation of photography by one of its foremost proponents. The result is a rare book of criticism, alive to the pleasure and mysteries of true exploration.
Robert Adams is a major figure in New Topographics movement known for his photographs of the modern American West. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Spectrum International Prize for Photography, and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, his many books include: From the Missouri West (1980), Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values (1981), Our Lives and Our Children (1983), Summer Nights, Walking (1985), Los Angeles Spring (1986), and Perfect Times, Perfect Places (1988). Adams's work has been widely exhibited, including in a major retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
