Robert Adams: Eden
Robert Adams and Joshua Chuang
The subject of these pictures is not tract homes or freeways but the source of all Form, light … light of such richness that banality is impossible. Robert Adams, from The New West
Robert Adams was born in 1937 in Orange, New Jersey. After earning a PhD in English literature and teaching the subject for several years at Colorado College, he became a photographer in the mid-1960s. Adams has published more than 40 books of photographs, with the changing landscape of the American West as his primary subject; his books with Steidl include Gone? (2009), The Place We Live (2013) and From the Missouri West (2018). Adams lives and works with his wife in northwest Oregon.