Robert Adams

American · b. 1937 · Photographer

Robert Adams is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through his book The… (Wikipedia)

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  1. Robert Adams, Longmont, Colorado, 1979, Gelatin silver print, printed 1990Longmont, ColoradoPhillips · $81,900≈ £60,225≈ €70,835Sign up to see
  2. Robert Adams, Berthoud, Colorado, 1976, Gelatin silver print, printed 1988Berthoud, ColoradoPhillips · $81,280≈ £62,789≈ €75,238Sign up to see
  3. Robert Adams, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1968, Gelatin silver print, printed 1990Colorado Springs, ColoradoPhillips · $81,250≈ £50,170≈ €64,469Sign up to see

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Robert Adams is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through his book The New West (1974) and his participation in the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape in 1975, which helped to define the New Topographics genre. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Hasselblad Award.

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Born 1937, OrangeOccupation PhotographerWikidata Q1392710 ↗ULAN 500037036 ↗

In the collections of

Ackland Art MuseumJ. Paul Getty MuseumMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofíaMuseum Boijmans Van BeuningenMuseum of Modern ArtNasher Museum of ArtNew Mexico Museum of ArtPicker Art GallerySan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtSmithsonian American Art MuseumArt Institute of Chicago

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Also known as Robert Hickman Adams, Robert ii Adams

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0), MoMA collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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