Reinventing the West: The Photographs of Ansel Adams and Robert Adams
- ISBN-10
- 1879886472
- ISBN-13
- 9781879886476
- Category
- Photography
- Pages
- 81
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Addison Gallery of Amer Art
- Authors
- Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, John R. Stilgoe
Description
In 1976, Robert Adams shot "Fort Collins, Colorado, " a nighttime picture of a lone tree in a Colorado parking lot, the crescent moon hanging in the sky above. More than 30 years earlier, Ansel Adams had captured "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, " showing a magnificent vista of desert scrub and clustered buildings, snow-capped mountains in the distance, the full moon majestically presiding in the expansive sky overhead. These two pictures could be neither more different nor more similar; nor could the younger Adams have made his photograph without knowledge of his greatly admired predecessor's. If Ansel Adams created singular images in search of a platonic ideal of nature, Robert Adams explored repetition and conformity; both were responding, in their own personal and aesthetic way, to the landscape of the American West. The first book to juxtapose bodies of work by these two 20th-century master photographers, Reinventing the West reveals how their photographs reflect changing attitudes toward the western landscape and the natural world.
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