Main entry:

Adams, Robert, 1937-

Title & Author:

Robert Adams : what we bought: the new world / Tod Papageorge.

Publication:

[New Haven] : Yale University, 2002.

Description:

31 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Cover title.
"What we bought," by Tod Papageorge, was originally published as an article in the Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 2001. This reprint accompanies the exhibition Robert Adams: what we bought: the new world, and Lewis Baltz: Park City, contemporary photographs, organized by Jock Reynolds and shown at the Yale University Art Gallery from April 23-July 28, 2002.--Back cover
Includes bibliographical references (pages 28-31).

Summary:

"Denver and What We Bought, together with The New West, form a loose trilogy of Robert Adams's work exploring the rapidly developing landscape of the Denver metropolitan area from 1968 through 1974. In the former two books, Adams created a comprehensive document that was resolute in its avoidance of romantic notions of the American West and dispassionately honest about man's despoliation of the land. Both books demonstrate the artist at the height of his powers as a documentary photographer and a poetic sequencer of images. The photographs featured in denver and What We Bought show tract housing with mountain ranges in the distance, trailer lots devoid of people, suburban streets through generic windows, shopping mall interiors, and parking lots: subjects distinctly unspectacular, familiar, and banal. Adams's compositions are straightforward and democratic, and it is this precise turn from sentimentality that has made Adams one of the most influential figures in the history of American photography." -- Taken from bookseller's website.

Subject:

Adams, Robert, 1937- Exhibitions.
Adams, Robert, 1937-
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Landscape photography Colorado Denver Region Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Landscape photography
Photography, Artistic
Denver Region (Colo.) Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Colorado Denver Region

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition, pictorial works

Added entries:

Papageorge, Tod.
Yale University. Art Gallery.

What we bought: the new world

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226867
Call No.: TR140.A216 P3 2002
Status: Available