Robert Adams
A Portrait in Landscapes
Nazraeli Press, Tucson, USA, 2005

pages 52
first edition
dimensions 23.6 × 22 cm, hardcover with Jacket
language English
ISBN 1590050738
Kerstin Adams has often accompanied her husband Robert when he has photographed the rural West. On those trips he would sometimes turn, after making a picture of the landscape, and make another that included her. “Kerstin loves the forest and prairie and shore,” Adams writes, “which is part of my love for her. When we are there, portraiture and landscape seem one; she shares nature’s glory, and nature is warmed by her caring.” A Portrait in Landscapes reproduces a selection of these linked pictures, together with related views. They span almost 40 years, and most have not been published before. Two of the photographs are of Kerstin reading. This volume might itself be understood as a letter.
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Robert Adams

American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West recording there, in over fifty books. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through his book The New West (1974) and his participation in the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape in 1975. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Hasselblad Award. He lives with his wife Kerstin in Astoria, Oregon, United States of America.