Mr. Robert Adams

Robert Adams was an American photographer who was born in Orange County, New Jersey, on May 8th, 1937. When he approached his teenage years, Robert and his family all moved to Colorado. The landscapes of Western America caught his interest and he documented them. His pictures were usually in black and white. Before he was a photographer, he was an English Literature professor for some time. His goal was to capture how neutral the landscape was. All of his photographs were mainly of what humans had created: houses that were still under construction. an empty road, etc and they were usually things that are eye-catching/interesting. His photographs represented that "the landscapes were an unlimited natural resource for human consumption." For my photography class, we needed to choose an artist who we want to pay homage to. 

What does paying homage to someone mean? You could look up the definition on the internet and come up with something like this: "To pay homage is something done or given in acknowledgment or consideration of the worth of another," but in my own words, it means to give respect to someone who you are inspired by.  

*Some of Robert Adam's work:

 In the words of John Szarkowski, Adams... "has, without actually lying, discovered in these dumb and artless agglomerations of boring buildings the suggestion of redeeming virtue." 

During Robert's summer nights (beginning in 1974), he would walk around town or on rural roads and take photographs of things- police often questioned him about what he was doing at night and motorists usually veered towards him because he was on the rural roads.

 Robert Adams liked to take pictures of buildings, trees, people-everything. He liked to include the simplicity in the photographs he took and he liked to bring that to life. He took beautiful photos. His photographs are featured in galleries all around the U.S.A and countries overseas.-such as galleries that are located in San Francisco, CA to London, France. His photos are also featured in many, many books. The two most recent are Questions for an Overcast Day, Matthew Marks Gallery (2007) and Time Passes, Steidl (2007).