Robert Adams: Summer Nights, Walking

Name: Robert Adams: Summer Nights, Walking
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SKU: 9783958296848
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Brief Description

In 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. Twenty-five years after first publishing a sequence of these pictures in 1985 as Summer Nights, he revisited... Read More

Format: Hardback

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Description

Twenty-five years after first publishing a sequence of these pictures in 1985 as Summer Nights, 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, Summer Nights, Walking 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.

What attracted me to the subjects at a new hour was the discovery then of a neglected peace. — Robert Adams

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783958296848

Publisher: Steidl Publishers

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 June 2024

Country: Germany

Imprint: Steidl Verlag

Illustration: 69 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Designed by Katy Homans
Text by William Blake
Text by Emily Dickinson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 254.0mm

Height: 257.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 80

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Robert Adams

About the Author

Robert Adams was born in 1937 in Orange, New Jersey. After earning a PhD in English literature and teaching the subject for several years at Colorado College, he became a photographer in the mid-1960s. Adams has published more than 40 books of photographs, with the changing landscape of the American West as his primary subject; his books with Steidl include Gone? (2009), The Place We Live (2013) and From the Missouri West (2018). Adams lives and works with his wife in northwest Oregon.