Adams continued

"Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny but that carry with them a reminder of community." - Robert Adams

I believe that Robert Adams does have a point in what he is talking about in the quote above. Without his photography, I wouldn't have been inspired to take pictures in the same style he did-and pay homage to him. My pictures wouldn't even exist without his influence. 

Robert Adams traveled all over the U.S.A. to take photographs. Mr. Adams liked to take his pictures in black and white; this is because he liked to capture the loneliness of the picture and he liked to bring his viewers into a state of curiosity- so they were wondering about what the picture could've signified to Robert Adams. I've noticed that Robert Adams liked to take pictures with trees involve- but not trees with ravishing green leaves- but withering trees. Adams thought that the 19th century photographers were privileged because they had skies that could show what part light played in their photos. 

"Their cameras could take their fill of scenes that are now obscured or faded out by an amorphous whiteness against which the reminiscent photographer now has to struggle to describe depth." (http://www.profotos.com/education/referencedesk/masters/masters/robertadams/robertadams.shtml)


To me, it seems as Robert was a little envious of what people in the 19th century could do with their cameras, so in my opinion, I think that is what inspired him. He liked to show depth in his pictures. Depth also made pictures interesting- so he took original things that we see everyday (like trees) and shot them in a way which depth was expressed-and he also made them black and white to show the "whiteness" in his photographs to better create depth.