Robert Adams: The Place we Live
Since the mid-1960s, Robert Adams has been considered one of the most important and influential chroniclers of the American West. A retrospective of his work is on display at the Jeu de Paume in Paris.
The exhibition Robert Adams: The Place We Live reflects Adams’ longstanding interest in the relationship between man and nature and his quest to find redeeming light and beauty in a deteriorating landscape. His photographs are distinguished not only by their economy and lucidity, but also by their mixture of grief and hope. With more than 250 pictures chosen from 21 distinct series, this retrospective presents for the very first time, the diverse aspects of his epic body of work.
Developed with input from Adams himself, the exhibition includes his numerous major projects from Adam’s first images of quiet buildings and monuments erected by the early settlers of his native Colorado, to his most recent photos of forests and migratory birds in the Pacific Northwest. Whether banal or glorious, Adams’ images accurately portray the complexity and the contradictions of modern life.
Robert Adams: The Place We Live is on display until Sunday 18 May 2014 at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.
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