Over the Hill

Walker Evans. Erosion near Jackson, Mississippi. 1936.
Robert Adams. New development on a former citrus-growing estate, Highland, California. 1983.

BA&KA by LF

Lee Friedlander. Robert and Kerstin Adams, 2002.

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.

Pine Valley

Robert Adams. Baker County, Oregon. 2003.

From Pine Valley.

Rise and Shine

"The best photographers go to bed early, and are up before sunrise. They may miss the evening light, but on the basis of photography's evidence the dawn appears to be even better."

John Szarkowski. Atget. Museum of Modern Art. 2000.

"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."

Robert Adams. Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques. May 1995.

Mr. Bennett

Paul Strand. Mr. Bennett, Vermont. 1944.

"Who can say what amalgam of memory, dreams, study, pain and discipline brought Paul Strand to photograph Mr. Bennett and to record him so perfectly? The picture is almost as unaccountable as the fact of Mr. Bennett, we are left with our little cosmologies and the certainty that we will never fully know. But we continue to speculate, as we do with all great art, because the picture is clearer than life and in this consoling."

Robert Adams. Why People Photograph.

Robert Adams at Home

Robert Adams. Colorado Springs, 1969.
Robert Adams. Longmont, Colorado. 1980.

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.