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Adams challenges our perceptions, encouraging a mindful engagement with the world through both image and word.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"art-can-help-by-robert-adams-9780300260243","title":"Art Can Help","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eArt Can Help\u003c\/em\u003e, the internationally acclaimed American photographer Robert Adams offers over two dozen meditations on the purpose of art and the responsibility of the artist. In particular, Adams advocates art that evokes beauty without irony or sentimentality, art that \"encourages us to gratitude and engagement, and is of both personal and civic consequence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing an introduction, the book begins with two short essays on the works of the American painter Edward Hopper, an artist venerated by Adams. The rest of this compilation contains texts—more than half of which have never before been published—that contemplate one or two works by an individual artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures discussed are by noted photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Emmet Gowin, Dorothea Lange, Abelardo Morell, Edward Ranney, Judith Joy Ross, John Szarkowski, and Garry Winogrand. Several essays summon the words of literary figures, including Virginia Woolf and Czeslaw Milosz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAdams’s voice is at once intimate and accessible, and is imbued with the accumulated wisdom of a long career devoted to making and viewing art. This eloquent and moving book champions art that fights against disillusionment and despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDistributed for the Yale University Art Gallery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46796066816236,"sku":"9780300260243","price":30.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24600173482294.jpg?v=1757076437"},{"product_id":"along-some-rivers-by-robert-adams-9781597110044","title":"Along Some Rivers","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Adams, one of America's foremost living photographers, has spent decades considering and documenting the landscape of the American West and the ways it has been altered, disturbed, or destroyed by the hand of man. A professor of English before turning to photography, Adams is also a skilled writer and acute thinker on aesthetic questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAperture's previous bestselling collections of his essays, \u003ci\u003eBeauty in Photography\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhy People Photograph\u003c\/i\u003e, assembled his thoughts on a range of subjects, including writing, teaching, photography's place in the arts, and a host of fellow photographers. \u003ci\u003eAlong Some Rivers\u003c\/i\u003e collects Adams's correspondence and conversations—some of which have never been published before—with writers and curators including William McEwan, Constance Sullivan and Thomas Weski.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn so doing, it provides another point of entry, offering a portrait of the artist in debate and elucidating his thoughts on a number of his now legendary projects, including Cottonwoods and What We Bought. Adams also expounds on why, in his view, Marcel Duchamp has not been a helpful guide for art, discusses which filmmakers and painters have influenced him, which cameras he prefers, and how he approaches printing his pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlong Some Rivers\u003c\/i\u003e also includes a selection of 28 unpublished landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423748735212,"sku":"9781597110044","price":57.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81Rv9tMxNSL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774429454"},{"product_id":"joshua-chuang-and-robert-adams-boats-books-birds-by-robert-adams-9783958296619","title":"Joshua Chuang and Robert Adams: Boats, Books, Birds","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summer and autumn of 2017, the photographer Robert Adams invited Joshua Chuang, his frequent collaborator, to document the objects that Adams has made over the years for his own consolation and pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting colour pictures—of half-model ships and boats, a miscellany of open books and cherished species of birds, all formed by hand from wood—have been brought together with views from the home Adams shares with his wife Kerstin to reveal a little-known aspect of his search for coherence in a fractured world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStrange to have come through the whole [twentieth] century and find that the most interesting thing is the birds.\u003c\/em\u003e John Hay\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431390757100,"sku":"9783958296619","price":85.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958296619.jpg?v=1774557938"},{"product_id":"robert-adams-on-lookout-mountain-by-robert-adams-9783958296831","title":"Robert Adams: On Lookout Mountain","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe view from Lookout Mountain west of Denver is of natural forms and our imprint on them, of the timeless and the passing. Generations have made their way there to find perspective on the city and the plains beyond. Robert Adams photographed from the overlook in 1970, and again in 1984.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor this volume, he has assembled a selection of views, by him and by others, that document a complex location that inspires both hope and despair. \u003cem\u003eThe site is an admixture: \"Buffalo Bill\" Cody's grave is located a few hundred feet to the south; the Coors brewery stands downhill; in the distance the sunrise reflects from unnatural lakes created by gravel quarrying required to make cement.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRobert Adams: On Lookout Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e captures the intricate beauty and contradictions of this unique vantage point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432267268332,"sku":"9783958296831","price":130.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958296831.jpg?v=1774555504"},{"product_id":"robert-adams-summer-nights-walking-by-robert-adams-9783958296848","title":"Robert Adams: Summer Nights, Walking","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-1970s, Robert Adams began recording nocturnal scenes near his former home in Longmont, Colorado. Illuminated by moonlight and streetlamp, suburban houses, roads, sidewalks and fields seemed transfigured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five years after first publishing a sequence of these pictures in 1985 as \u003cem\u003eSummer Nights\u003c\/em\u003e, he revisited his project, amending its title and completely re-editing its contents to create a more disquieting and thus more accurate reflection of his experience. Hailed as a new classic, \u003cem\u003eSummer Nights, Walking\u003c\/em\u003e went out of print soon after it was published in 2009. This sensitively enlarged edition, printed with the same exquisite care as the original, makes this revered body of work available to a new audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat attracted me to the subjects at a new hour was the discovery then of a neglected peace.\u003c\/em\u003e — Robert Adams\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432267399404,"sku":"9783958296848","price":120.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958296848.jpg?v=1774555504"},{"product_id":"robert-adams-the-plains-from-memory-by-joshua-chuang-9783969990179","title":"Robert Adams: The Plains, from Memory","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 2020, as he watched his country tested, Robert Adams discovered in his garage a small plank of wood that contained a landscape. This led to the creation, during a difficult time, of an unexpected series of works that drew upon memories of a stillness and a grandeur he had forgotten about.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver the next few months, using scrap wood from an old bookcase, hand tools that once belonged to his father and grandfather, and block printing ink, Adams affirmed his own basis for hope in the 21 scenes that appear in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI came out on this plain... First I thought it was like the sea ... then I thought it was like singing...\u003c\/em\u003e - Agnes Martin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432268513516,"sku":"9783969990179","price":85.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783969990179.jpg?v=1774555504"},{"product_id":"why-people-photograph-by-robert-adams-9780893816032","title":"Why People Photograph","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA now classic text on the art, \u003ci\u003eWhy People Photograph\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honour what is greater and more interesting than we are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461784420588,"sku":"9780893816032","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c5b37ce95818a5f009dd626cf6f2bf36.jpg?v=1775016192"},{"product_id":"robert-adams-our-lives-and-our-children-by-robert-adams-9783958290976","title":"Robert Adams: Our lives and our children","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne day in the early 1970s, Robert Adams and his wife saw from their home a column of smoke rise above the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, near Denver, Colorado. For an hour, they watched the plume grow, tried without success to learn whether the fire involved the radioactive and extremely toxic plutonium, and experienced a sense of helplessness before what appeared to be a nuclear accident in progress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUltimately, it was announced that the fire was burning safely outside the plant, but as a result of their hour of uncertainty Adams decided to try to picture what of worth—absolute worth—stood to be lost in a nuclear catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAdams photographed \u003cem\u003eOur Lives and Our Children\u003c\/em\u003e in Denver and its suburbs; the individuals shown were within hazardous proximity of the Rocky Flats Plant. 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Unflinching in their description yet embodying a mysteriously radiant peace, the pictures Adams made of the otherwise graceless site confirmed for him a vital new way of relating to the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe would parlay this revelation into \u003cem\u003eThe New West\u003c\/em\u003e, the book that would establish both his photographs and his subject—the contemporary landscape of the American frontier—as matters of wider consequence. 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At the time the pictures were made, the hand of man had not so much disfigured as domesticated that paradise, leaving its mark of intrusion almost casually, with the assurance of absolute triumph. Adams recorded this intrusion with neither judgment nor irony; the land he shows has simply been changed, reduced, made ordinary. Yet a second look makes it apparent that the hand of man has, after all, its limitations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1980, \u003cem\u003eFrom the Missouri West\u003c\/em\u003e marked a watershed in the history of landscape photography by reclaiming the West's sublimity as worthy of unromantic consideration. 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