Why people photograph : selected essays and reviews / by Robert Adams.

Main entry:

Adams, Robert, 1937-

Title & Author:

Why people photograph : selected essays and reviews / by Robert Adams.

Edition:

First edition

Publication:

New York : Aperture, [1994]
©1994

Description:

186 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
What can help: Colleagues, Humor, Collectors, Writing, Teaching, Money, Dogs -- Examples of success: Edward Weston; Paul Strand; Laura Gilpin; Judith Joy Ross; Susan Meiselas; Michael Schmidt; Ansel Adams; Dorothea Lange; Eugène Atget -- Working conditions: In the nineteenth-century West; In the twentieth-century West; Two landscapes.

Summary:

This critically acclaimed work brings us a new selection of poignant essays by master photographer Robert Adams. In this volume, Adams evinces his firm belief in the importance of art. Photographers "may or may not make a living by photography," he writes, "but they are alive by it."

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0893815977 (hardcover)
9780893815974 (hardcover)
0893816035 (paperback)
9780893816032 (paperback)

Subject:

Photography, Artistic.
Photographers.
Artists' books New York (State) 20th century Specimens.
Photographie artistique.
Photographes.
Livres d'artistes New York (État) 20e siècle Spécimens.
art photography.
photographers.
Fotografie
Aufsatzsammlung
Photographie.

Form/genre:

Essay
Aufsatzsammlung.
essays.
artists' books (books)
Essays
Artists' books.
Artists' books New York (State) 20th century.
Essais.
Livres d'artistes.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 109033
Call No.: ID TR642.A29; ID:94-B3139
Status: External loan

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