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Reinventing the West
Ansel Adams
Robert Adams
Allison N. Kemmerer
John R. Stilgoe
其他書名
The Photographs of Ansel Adams and Robert Adams
出版
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy
, 2001
主題
Photography / History
ISBN
1879886472
9781879886476
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TYptQgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
In 1976, Robert Adams shot "Fort Collins, Colorado," a nighttime picture of a lone tree in a Colorado parking lot, the crescent moon hanging in the sky above. More than 30 years earlier, Ansel Adams had captured "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico," showing a magnificent vista of desert scrub and clustered buildings, snow-capped mountains in the distance, the full moon majestically presiding in the expansive sky overhead. These two pictures could be neither more different nor more similar; nor could the younger Adams have made his photograph without knowledge of his greatly admired predecessor's. If Ansel Adams created singular images in search of a platonic ideal of nature, Robert Adams explored repetition and conformity; both were responding, in their own personal and aesthetic way, to the landscape of the American West. The first book to juxtapose bodies of work by these two twentieth-century master photographers, "Reinventing the West" reveals how their photographs reflect changing attitudes toward the western landscape and the natural world.