Robert Adams: The New West -

NY: Aperture, 2008. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 121 pages, 56 b&w plates. Third edition. Foreword by John Szarkowski. Originally published in 1974, The New West is now regarded as a classic book of photography. This 2008 reissue is a facsimile of the original book and has been recreated from a set of original prints held in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery. A very good copy with light wear at the top edge. Record # 382107

Aperture 2008. Hardcover, 123 pages, ENG, 260 x 230 x 20 mm, dustjacket, in very good condition, b/w photographs. ISBN 9781597110600. Originally published in 1974, Robert Adams' "The New West" signaled a significant shift in photographic representation of the American landscape. Eschewing photography's role in romanticizing the Western landscape, Adams focused instead on the construction of tract and mobile homes, subdivisions, shopping centers, and urban sprawl in the suburbs of Colorado Springs and the Denver area. Objective and direct, Adams' photographs, rendered in his signature middle-gray scale, unsentimentally depict a despoiled landscape washed in the intense Colorado sunlight. "The New West" stands alongside Walker Evans' "American Photographs", Robert Frank's "The Americans", and Stephen Shore's "Uncommon Places" in the pantheon of landmark projects on American culture and society. This second reissue of the classic… Read More

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