Robert Adams - The New West, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2000, Köln
Text by Robert Adams, John Szarkowski, Heinz Liesbrock and Thomas Weski. Hardcover (green cloth) with dustjacket.
The open American West is nearly gone. The New West is a photographic essay about what came to fill it—freeways, tract homes, low-rise business buildings and signs. In five sequences of pictures taken along the front wall of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, Robert Adams has documented a representative sampling of the whole suburban Southwest. These views have a double power. At first they shock; normally we try to forget the commercial squalor they depict. Slowly, however, they reveal aspects of the geography—the shape of the land itself, for example—that are beyond man’s harm. Adams has written that “all land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty,” and his photographs show this. (from the Steidl reprint)
Pages: 138
Place: Köln
Year: 2000
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
Size: 25 x 23 cm (approx.)
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Text by Robert Adams, John Szarkowski, Heinz Liesbrock and Thomas Weski. Hardcover (green cloth) with dustjacket.
The open American West is nearly gone. The New West is a photographic essay about what came to fill it—freeways, tract homes, low-rise business buildings and signs. In five sequences of pictures taken along the front wall of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, Robert Adams has documented a representative sampling of the whole suburban Southwest. These views have a double power. At first they shock; normally we try to forget the commercial squalor they depict. Slowly, however, they reveal aspects of the geography—the shape of the land itself, for example—that are beyond man’s harm. Adams has written that “all land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty,” and his photographs show this. (from the Steidl reprint)
Pages: 138
Place: Köln
Year: 2000
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
Size: 25 x 23 cm (approx.)
Included in "The Photobook: A History Volume II" by Parr/Badger
>> see more Vol. II picks here