Why People Photograph
A now classic text on the art, Why People Photograph gathers a selection of essays by the great master photographer Robert Adams, tackling such diverse subjects as collectors, humor, teaching, money and dogs. Adams also writes brilliantly on Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Laura Gilpin, Judith Joy Ross, Susan Meiselas, Michael Schmidt, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Eugene Atget. The book closes with two essays on “working conditions” in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West, and the essay “Two Landscapes”. Adams writes: “At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are”.
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Adams Ansel Easton, Gilpin Laura, Schmidt Michael, Lange Dorothea, Strand Paul, Meiselas Susan, Atget Jean Eugène Auguste, Weston Edward Henry
New York City
2005
186 pages
9780893816032
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