Robert Adams, born in 1937, came to prominence as part of the photographic movement known as New Topographics. His work has been widely exhibited both in Europe and the United States. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Spectrum International Prize for Photography, and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.
In Art Can Help, the internationally acclaimed American photographer Robert Adams offers over two dozen meditations on the purpose of art and the responsibility of the artist. Adams advocates art that evokes beauty without irony or sentimentality, art that “encourages us to gratitude and engagement, and is of both personal and civic consequence.”
Books in order of publication:
Beauty in photography: Essays in defense of traditional values – 1981
Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews – 1994
Robert Adams: Along Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversations – 2006
Robert Adams: Questions for an Overcast Day – 2008
Robert Adams: The New West – 2008
Summer Nights, Walking: Along the Colorado Front Range 1976-1982 – 2009
denver: A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area, 1970-1974 – 2009
What Can We Believe Where?: Photographs of the American West – 2010
Robert Adams: The Place We Live – 2014
Art Can Help – 2017
One Voice – 2017
Robert Adams: A Parallel World – 2021
Robert Adams: Standing Still – 2021
Robert Adams: Summer Nights, Walking – 2022
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