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Robert Adams




Robert Adams’s black-and-white photographs document scenes of the American West, revealing the impact of human activity on the last vestiges of wilderness and open space. An underlying tension in Adams’s body of work is the contradiction between landscapes visibly transformed or scarred by human presence and the inherent beauty of light and land rendered by the camera. BIOGRAPHY

Artist's Slideshows:
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
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"A second growth stump on top of a first growth stump, Coos County, Oregon""Clearcut, Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon""Clearcut, Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon""Kerstin, next to an old-growth stump, Coos County, Oregon"
"Kerstin, old growth stump from early cutting, surrounded by the remains of recently cut small trees, on Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon""Sitka Spruce, Cape Blanco State Park, Curry County, Oregon""Stacking the de-limbed trunks of an immature ’harvest,’ Columbia County, Oregon""Waste in a Clearcut, Clatsop County, Oregon"
"New Development on what was a Citrus Growing Estate, Highland, California""Dead Palms, Partially Uprooted, Ontario, California""Dead Plant, Barbed Wire, and Razor Wire, Palos Verdes, California""Looking Past Citrus Groves into the San Bernardino Valley; Northeast of Riverside, California"
"Denver, Colorado""Untitled""Untitled""Untitled"
"Redlands, Looking toward Los Angeles across San Timoteo Canyon, San Bernardino County, California""Santa Ana Wash, Next to Norton Air Force Base, California""East from Flagstaff Mountain, Boulder County, Colorado""Burning Oil Sludge, Boulder County, Colorado"
"Adams County, Colorado""From Lookout Mountain, at Buffalo Bill’s Grave. Jefferson County, Colorado""Sunday School, a Church in a New Tract, Colorado Springs""Colorado Springs, Colorado"
"Frame for a Tract House, Colorado Springs, Colorado""Colorado Springs, Colorado""Newly Completed Tract House, Colorado Springs, Colorado"