Can I read Robert Adams: Along Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversations on EtoBox?

Robert Adams: Along Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversations by Robert Adams is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Robert Adams: Along Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversations about?

<p>Robert Adams, one of America's foremost living photographers, has spent decades considering and documenting the landscape of the American West and the ways it has been altered, disturbed, or destroyed by the hand of man. A professor of English before turning to photography, Adams is also a skilled writer and acute thinker on aesthetic questions. Aperture's previous bestselling collections of his essays, <i>Beauty in Photography</i> and <i>Why People Photograph,</i> assembled his thoughts on a range of subjects, including writing, teaching, photography's place in the arts and a host of fellow photographers. <i>Along Some Rivers</i> collects Adams's correspondence and conversations—some of which have never been published before—with writers and curators including William McEwan, Constance Sullivan and Thomas Weski. In so doing, it provides another point of entry, offering a portrait of the artist in debate and elucidating his thoughts on a number of his now legendary projects, including <i>Cottonwoods</i> and <i>What We Bought.</i> Adams also expounds on why, in his view, Marcel Duchamp has not been a helpful guide for art, and he discusses which filmmakers and painters have influ

Author

Robert Adams

Publisher

Aperture Foundation, Incorporated

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781597110044

Subjects

Photography, Music, Arts

Rating

4.4 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14