Main entry:

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984.

Title & Author:

Reinventing the West : the photographs of Ansel Adams and Robert Adams.

Publication:

Andover, Mass. : Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, ©2001.

Description:

81 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., Jan. 2-Mar. 25, 2001.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., Jan. 2-Mar. 25, 2001.
Texts by Adam D. Weinberg, Allison N. Kemmerer and John R. Stilgoe.
Includes bibliographical references (page 21).
Meditations on two moons / Adam D. Weinberg -- Reinventing the West / Allison N. Kemmerer -- Sparse and away / John R. Stilgoe.

Summary:

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 twentieth-century master photographers, Reinventing the West reveals how their photographs reflect changing attitudes toward the western landscape and the natural world

ISBN:

1879886472 (pbk.)
9781879886476 (pbk.)
1879886480
9781879886483

Subject:

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984 Exhibitions.
Adams, Robert, 1937- Exhibitions.
Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984 Expositions.
Adams, Robert, 1937- Expositions.
Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984.
Adams, Robert, 1937-
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Landscape photography Exhibitions.
Photographie de paysages Expositions.
États-Unis (Ouest) dans l'art Expositions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Landscape photography.
Photography, Artistic.
Landscape photography West (U.S.) Exhibitions.
West (U.S.) Pictorial works Exhibitions.
West (U.S.) In art Exhibitions.
Oeste (Estados Unidos) Obras ilustradas Exposiciones.
Oeste (Estados Unidos) Arte Exposiciones.
États-Unis (Ouest) Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
West United States.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition, pictorial works.

Added entries:

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984.
Adams, Robert, 1937-
Weinberg, Adam D.
Kemmerer, Allison N.
Stilgoe, John R., 1949-
Addison Gallery of American Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 233360
Call No.: TR140.A618 R4 2001
Status: Available