Robert Adams: Why People Photograph

Format: Paperback / softback
Number of pages: 189
Number of images: 0
Publication date: 2005-06-15
Measurements: 5.53 x 8.28 x 0.64 inches
ISBN: 9780893816032

Robert Adams (born in Orange, New Jersey, 1937), 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 humankind. A professor of English before turn­ing to photography, Adams is also a skilled writer and acute thinker on aesthetic questions. He is recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Adams’s work has been shown widely, including in major exhibitions at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; Phil­adelphia Museum of Art; and Museum of Modern Art, New York. His other Aperture books include Beauty in Photography; (first edition, 1981; second edition, 1996; reissued 2023), Summer Nights (1985), Why People Photograph (1994, reissued 2023), Along Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversations (2006), Summer Nights, Walking (2009, copublished with Yale Uni­versity Art Gallery), and American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams (2021, copublished with the National Gallery of Art).

“With the publication of Beauty in Photography and Why People Photograph Robert Adams established himself as one of the most important and eloquent writers on photography.”—Sarah Greenough, National Gallery of Art

“Beyond his fabled skill as a photographer, Adams is an excellent writer. Why People Photograph is a book I would recommend to anyone taken with the art of photography."—Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle