THIS VIDEO: Beauty is perhaps not the first word that comes to mind when one thinks of Robert Adams urban expansion photographs. His work came to prominence in the mid-1970s through his book The New West and his inclusion in the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape. Before Ecologists become trendy, Adams was driven to reveal how the presence of humans was affecting the landscape of the American West. When you look at these early pictures, one’s first reaction is to recoil from mindless urban developments and then one becomes protective of nature. But even these images have an engaging aesthetic resulting from the photographer's awareness of composition and light. Adams says that The subject of these pictures, is not the tract homes or freeways - but Light itself – which he sees as the source of all form. In the same way that a war photographer composes captivating images of destruction using form and light, Adams seeks out beauty within these disrupted spaces.
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VIDEO CLIPS:Botanist Matt Ritter on Photographer Robert Adams, Robert Adams Books & Gravures Art21 Extended Play, Robert Adams introduces American Silence The Photographs of Robert Adams, Robert Adams Light Art21 Extended Play, Robert Adams Photographing a landscape of mistakes, Robert Adams Turning Back.