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Lungo i fiumi. Fotografie e conversazioni
Lungo i fiumi presenta una raccolta di interviste con il fotografo americano Robert Adams e una selezione di immagini di paesaggio per lo più inedite. Le conversazioni affrontano i temi fondamentali dell'oggi: il compito dell'arte e la responsabilità dell'artista, la condizione umana e culturale dell'Occidente, la necessità e la difficoltà della speranza nell'epoca del nichilismo e del materialismo contemporanei. Le fotografie testimoniano della forza della luce nell'orizzonte del mondo. Come scrive Adams: "Le fotografie sono i luoghi che amo. Vederli ha significato tutto. Le fotografie sono l'unica risposta che proporrei ad alcune domande".
144 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2006
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Robert Adams
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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 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.
See this thread for more information.
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 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.
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December 17, 2015
I am an Adams fan boy. All his books are excellent. This would make a good primer for those unfamiliar with his work.
August 31, 2017
Raccolta di dialoghi discontinua e poco coesa. Ogni tanto emerge un pensiero illuminante, ma siamo lontani da "La bellezza in fotografia".
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February 1, 2018Libro letto per l’universitá!
April 12, 2019
Foto piccole, poco numerose e poco apprezzabili. Testi probabilmente interessanti, ma ammetto di averne letto solo un paio.
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