Why People Photograph

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Why People Photograph. Selected essays and reviews by Robert Adams. "At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are." 32 blackandwhite photographs, 5 1/2 X 8 1/4, 192 pages. paperback;

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Why People Photograph. Selected essays and reviews by Robert Adams. "At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are." 32 blackandwhite photographs, 5 1/2 X 8 1/4, 192 pages. paperback;

"Adams writes with a clarity unusual in the art world and with an intelligence that ranges widely,literature, politics, American history, the history of photography and painting, religion, Native American culture all are brought to bear on his feelings about photography and it's role in contemporary culture. Adams' writing is simply clear. He is as careful with his sentences as he is with the composition of his photographsa true parallel existing between the structure of his writing and that of his visual work: both I think finally set out to reveal in simple and transparent ways the wholeness of a complex idea."

Peter Brown, The Houston Center for Photography

"First in Beauty in Photography, and now in Why People Photograph, Adams has addressed issues facing 'straight' photography in a manner that is sober, thoughtful, eminently reasonable, and which strives always for accessibility and clarity of expression."

Bruce NiXon, Artweek

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  • ISBN-13: 9780893815974
  • Publisher: Aperture Foundation
  • Publication date: 9/28/1994
  • Edition description: 1st ed
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 192
  • Product dimensions: 5.84 (w) x 8.56 (h) x 1.02 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword 9
What Can Help
Colleagues 13
Humor 21
Collectors 29
Writing 31
Teaching 37
Money 43
Dogs 47
Examples of Success
Edward Weston 59
Paul Strand 75
Laura Gilpin 91
Judith Joy Ross 103
Susan Meiselas 105
Michael Schmidt 109
Ansel Adams 113
Dorothea Lange 119
Eugene Atget 123
Working Conditions
In the Nineteenth-century West 133
In the Twentieth-century West 155
Two Landscapes 179
Acknowledgments 185
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