What we bought-- the new world : scenes from the Denver metropolitan area, 1970-1974
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Copy number Shelfmark Shelf mark R017782 Ned. Fotomuseum USA MON ADAMS.R 2009
TitleWhat we bought-- the new world : scenes from the Denver metropolitan area, 1970-1974
Author
Photographer
Iconographic keywords
Place of publicationNew Haven
Year of publication2009
Pagination[203] p.
Illustrationsb&w
Dimensions21 x 24 cm.
MaterialMonografie
Document TypeBook
ISBN97803001496300300149638
Bibliographic Noteshc;
Geographical keywordColorado, Denver
Abstract
First published: Hannover : Stiftung Niedersachsen, c1995, in conjunction with an exhibition at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, Sept. 24-Nov. 19, 1995.
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We cite from the PUBLISHER:
"denver and 'What We Bought', together with 'The New West', form a loose trilogy of Robert Adams’s work exploring the rapidly developing landscape of the Denver metropolitan area from 1968 through 1974. In the former two books, Adams created a comprehensive document that was resolute in its avoidance of romantic notions of the American West and dispassionately honest about man’s despoliation of the land. Both books demonstrate the artist at the height of his powers as a documentary photographer and a poetic sequencer of images."
"The photographs featured in 'denver' and 'What We Bought' show tract housing with mountain ranges in the distance, trailer lots devoid of people, suburban streets through generic windows, shopping mall interiors, and parking lots: subjects distinctly unspectacular, familiar, and banal. Adams’s compositions are straightforward and democratic, and it is this precise turn from sentimentality that has made Adams one of the most influential figures in the history of American photography."
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We cite from the PUBLISHER:
"denver and 'What We Bought', together with 'The New West', form a loose trilogy of Robert Adams’s work exploring the rapidly developing landscape of the Denver metropolitan area from 1968 through 1974. In the former two books, Adams created a comprehensive document that was resolute in its avoidance of romantic notions of the American West and dispassionately honest about man’s despoliation of the land. Both books demonstrate the artist at the height of his powers as a documentary photographer and a poetic sequencer of images."
"The photographs featured in 'denver' and 'What We Bought' show tract housing with mountain ranges in the distance, trailer lots devoid of people, suburban streets through generic windows, shopping mall interiors, and parking lots: subjects distinctly unspectacular, familiar, and banal. Adams’s compositions are straightforward and democratic, and it is this precise turn from sentimentality that has made Adams one of the most influential figures in the history of American photography."
| Copy number | R017782 |
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| Shelf mark | USA MON ADAMS.R 2009 |