| Names: | Born: Robert Hickman Adams
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| | Dates: | 1937, 8 May - | | Born: | US, NJ, Orange | | Active: | US |
American photographer who has explored with a view camera the relationship between the changing environment and humanity. He captures with clarity the growth of suburbs, shopping malls and the rape of the lands by deforestation.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
Adams’ "New West" photographs express the diverse interaction between culture and nature. His minimal landscapes acknowledge that the beauty, grace, and order of the open American West has been obscured by the confusing commercial disorder of freeways, road signs, strip malls, and tract and trailer homes. This New Topographics outlook refers to the human-altered landscape characteristic of photographers who sought a contemporary landscape aesthetic dealing with those living in it without the romantic notions of the picturesque or the sublime.
(Author: Robert Hirsch - Independent scholar and writer)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
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