Adams at Home

Joshua Chuang, Bookcase in the home of Robert and Kerstin Adams.

Some notes from curator Joshua Chuang on several recent books by Robert Adams on the Yale Press Blog.

I'm very interested in the books on these shelves! In the top right case I recognize the complete watercolor and oil paintings of Edward Hopper and Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist, each edited by Gail Levin. The rest are a mystery to me.

To A Cabin

"Shortly before her death...she published a small book of pictures that she made of her family at a cabin on the shore near San Francisco. I often turn to that book when I'm tired. I thank her for it - for its warmth."

Robert Adams in conversation with students at Reed College. From Along Some Rivers, published by Aperture in 2006.

Nathaniel Stebbins - Yacht Portraits

Nathaniel Stebbins. Shamrock. c. 1898.

Nathaniel Stebbins. James W. Parker. c. 1907.

Keep an eye out for a beautiful portfolio of Stebbins's work, Yacht Portraits of the Leading American Yachts. Published by Brentano's in 1889. Printed in photogravure by the Boston Photogravure Company. More photographs in the MIT Museum Collections.

Bessie

"Bessie, daughter of Zion, mother of three, she lives in a small village settled on an isolated ox-cart trail in 1858 by ten families."

From Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman.

Cotton Sharecropper Families

Photographs of Cotton Sharecropper Families. An album of 107 silver prints from Walker Evans's work with James Agee in Alabama. At the Library of Congress.

Eric Paddock

Eric Paddock. From Belonging to the West.

Robert Adams - Sea Stories

Robert Adams. North Beach Peninsula, Pacific County, Washington, ca. 2005.


The Yale University Art Gallery is planning two books of new work by Robert Adams: This Day and Sea Stories. Both will include photographs made over the last ten years near his home in Oregon. In an email from the gallery I learned that the books are planed for publication in the Spring of 2012. More about Sea Stories:

This publication presents Robert Adams’s latest major body of work, recently acquired by the Gallery. Designed as an artist’s book and culled from images made since the late 1990s, the publication traces the walking routes that Adams and his wife have taken regularly in the forests and along the shores near their home in coastal Oregon, where he has carefully observed the cycles of nature and the migration of birds.

There are more photographs from the projects at the gallery's site The Place We Live, a retrospective of Adams's work.