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Ansel Adams
Author_Robert Adams
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collectors
dogs
Dorothea Lange
Edward Weston
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humor
master photographer
money
Paul Strand
photography as art
photography essays
Product details
- ISBN 9780893816032
- Weight: 350g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2004
- Publisher: Aperture
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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."
Robert Adams, born in 1937, came to prominence as part of the photographic movement known as New Topographics. His work has been widely exhibited both in Europe and the United States. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Spectrum International Prize for Photography, and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.
