Robert Adams (photographer)
Robert Adams (born May 8, 1937 in Orange , New Jersey ) is an American photographer .
Life
Adams was born in Orange, New Jersey in 1937. He grew up in New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Colorado . Adams began taking photos at the age of 25. During this time he worked as an English teacher at a college and used his summer holidays for his first work. His first motifs were early prairie churches and the testimonies of Hispanic art in the USA. He lived in Scandinavia with his Swedish wife for a while, but then decided to take photographs of the complex geography of the North American continent . In the 70s and 80s, the photo books The New West , Denver , What We Bought , Summer Nights were created, which deal with the uncontrolled expanding suburbs in Colorado and the resulting landscape change.
Adams holds a BA from the University of Redlands , California , and a PhD in English from the University of Southern California . He lives and works in Oregon . He has won several awards for his work.
Awards
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award (1994)
- SPECTRUM, International Prize for Photography from the Lower Saxony Foundation (1995)
- Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2006)
- Hasselblad Foundation Award (2009)
- Peer Award from Friends of Photography
Publications
- The New West (1974)
- The New West - Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range. König, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-88375-461-7 .
- New edition with a foreword by John Szarkowski : Steidl, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-86930-900-2 .
- From the Missouri West (1980)
- New edition: Steidl, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-95829-168-3
- Our Lives and Our Children (1984)
- Summer Nights (1985)
- Los Angeles Spring (1986)
- West From Columbia (1995)
- Turning Back (2005)
- Time Passes (2007) Steidl, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-2-86925-078-9
Exhibitions
- Museum of Modern Art, New York (1979)
- Philadelphia Museum of Art (1989)
- Denver Art Museum (1993)
- Yale University Art Gallery , New Haven (2002)
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2005)
- Josef Albers Museum - Quadrat Bottrop : Robert Adams: The Place We Live. Retrospective of the photographic work (2013)
literature
- Robert Adams: The Place We Live. A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964 - 2009 (3 volumes; catalog for the special exhibition from June 30 to September 29, 2013 with texts by John Szarkowski, Jock Reynolds, Joshua Chuang and others), New Haven 2011.
- Robert Adams: Denver. A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area, 1970-1974 , New Haven 2009.
swell
- Information about Adams on the occasion of the Hasselblad Foundation Awards (PDF file; 502 kB)
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert Adams in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ The J. Paul Getty Museum ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Robert Adams. In: Fraenkel Gallery. Retrieved September 28, 2019 (American English).
- ^ From the end of the border in FAZ of September 8, 2016, page R6
- ^ Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop - Current
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adams, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adams, Robert Hickman |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orange , New Jersey |