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Why People Photograph
Robert Adams
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Description for Why People Photograph
paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 32 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 302.
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 Eugene 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 ... Read more
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 Eugene 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Aperture United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780893816032
SKU
V9780893816032
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99-4
About Robert Adams
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 Borse Photography Prize, his many books include: From the Missouri West (1980), Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values (1981), Our ... Read more
Reviews for Why People Photograph
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