Robert Adams

(American, born 1937)

Robert Adams is an American photographer best known for his images of the American West. Offering solemn meditations on the landscapes of California, Colorado, and Oregon, Adams’s black-and-white photos document the changes wrought by humans upon nature. “By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet. Later, next to the South Platte River: algae, broken concrete, jet contrails, the smell of crude oil,” he wrote. “What I hope to document, though not at the expense of surface detail, is the form that underlies this apparent chaos.” Born on May 8, 1937 in Orange, NJ, his family moved around the Midwest throughout his childhood, finally settling in Wheat Ridge, CO in 1952. Adams went on to study English at the University of Redlands and received his PhD in English from the University of Southern California in 1965. It wasn’t until the near completion of his dissertation for USC that Adams began to take photography seriously, learning techniques from professional photographer Myron Wood and reading Aperture magazine. In the 1970s, he was released the book The New West (1974), and a year later was included in the seminal exhibition “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape.” Adams has twice been the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and once the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. Adams lives and works in Astoria, OR. Today, his works can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.

Robert Adams Artworks

Robert Adams (438 results)

Tree, Colorado prairie, 1984

Robert Adams

Tree, Colorado prairie, 1984

Sale Date: April 9, 2011

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Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1968

Robert Adams

Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1968

Sale Date: April 9, 2011

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Alameda Avenue, Denver, 1974

Robert Adams

Alameda Avenue, Denver, 1974

Sale Date: April 9, 2011

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Denver, Colorado, 1973

Robert Adams

Denver, Colorado, 1973

Sale Date: April 9, 2011

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Broken trees next to Box Springs Mountains,..., 1982

Robert Adams

Broken trees next to Box Springs Mountains,..., 1982

Sale Date: April 8, 2011

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Arvada, Colorado, 1981

Robert Adams

Arvada, Colorado, 1981

Sale Date: April 6, 2011

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Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1968

Robert Adams

Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1968

Sale Date: October 8, 2010

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Colorado Springs, 1969

Robert Adams

Colorado Springs, 1969

Sale Date: October 6, 2010

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Alkali Lake, Albany County, Wyoming, 1978

Robert Adams

Alkali Lake, Albany County, Wyoming, 1978

Sale Date: October 7, 2010

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Berthoud, Colorado, 1976

Robert Adams

Berthoud, Colorado, 1976

Sale Date: October 7, 2010

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Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1968

Robert Adams

Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1968

Sale Date: October 7, 2010

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Coltin, California, 1982

Robert Adams

Coltin, California, 1982

Sale Date: April 16, 2010

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Cottonwood leaves, Boulder County, Colorado, 1988

Robert Adams

Cottonwood leaves, Boulder County, Colorado, 1988

Sale Date: December 8, 2009

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Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado, 1984

Robert Adams

Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado, 1984

Sale Date: December 8, 2009

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Dead palms, partially uprooted, Ontario,..., 1983

Robert Adams

Dead palms, partially uprooted, Ontario,..., 1983

Sale Date: November 20, 2009

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What we bought: The new world (bk w/193 works,...

Robert Adams

What we bought: The new world (bk w/193 works,...

Sale Date: October 6, 2009

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The new west (bk w/text by John Szarkowski; 56...

Robert Adams

The new west (bk w/text by John Szarkowski; 56...

Sale Date: October 6, 2009

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Santa Ana wash, Norton Air Force Base,..., 1978

Robert Adams

Santa Ana wash, Norton Air Force Base,..., 1978

Sale Date: October 9, 2009

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Pawnee national grassland, Colorado, 1984

Robert Adams

Pawnee national grassland, Colorado, 1984

Sale Date: May 14, 2009

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Alameda Avenue, Denver, 1974

Robert Adams

Alameda Avenue, Denver, 1974

Sale Date: May 19, 2009

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Curtis street, Denver, 1968–1971

Robert Adams

Curtis street, Denver, 1968–1971

Sale Date: April 1, 2009

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On Signal Hill, overlooking Long Beach,..., 1983

Robert Adams

On Signal Hill, overlooking Long Beach,..., 1983

Sale Date: April 1, 2009

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New housing: Views of Pike's Peak, 1968

Robert Adams

New housing: Views of Pike's Peak, 1968

Sale Date: March 30, 2009

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Newly occupied tract houses. Colorado Springs, 1968

Robert Adams

Newly occupied tract houses. Colorado Springs, 1968

Sale Date: March 30, 2009

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