Famous Photographer #23: Robert Adams

Robert Adams is known for his photographs of the landscape of the American West. He particularly enjoyed shooting California, Oregon, and Colorado. He work was inspired by his joy for landscapes. He wanted to show how great the land was because it was degraded by residential and commercial development. He showed two kinds of landscapes. He wanted to to show the landscapes of ones damaged by people and the other is how landscapes somehow beyond their power to harm. He took pictures of housing tracts that were being built in Colorado. Certain elements recur in Adam's landscapes. These elements are cars, boxy houses, loneliness, and isolation. Also, Adams made a series of photographs focusing on the people who lived near Denver. He started to travel to different places to take pictures and started to take pictures of people in addition to landscapes.