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| Robert Adams snippet |
| He made a series of photographs at night—the opposite of the
high-altitude daylight used in most of his previous photographs. The
project brought an element of risk as passing motorists sometimes veered
toward him on rural roadsides. |
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| Robert Adams |
| Robert Adams (born May 8, 1937) is an American photographer who came
to prominence as part of the photographic movement known as New
Topographics. He received the MacArthur Foundation's MacArthur
Fellowship in 1994. |
| Adams was born in Orange, New Jersey, relocating to Colorado when he
started as a professional photographer. Adams became interested in
documenting how the western landscapes of North American, once captured
by Timothy O'Sullivan and
William Henry
Jackson, had been shaped by
human influence. As part of the New Topographics in the 1970s, Adams
approach to photographing these landscapes was to take a stance of
apparent neutrality, refraining from any obvious judgements of the
subject matter. His images are titled as documents, to establish his
neutral position. |
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