Robert Adams
PersonalRobert Adams was born in Orange County, New Jersey on 8 May 1937. After moving to Madison, Winsconsin aged 12, Adams contracted polio but was able to recover.
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History
For a number of years, Adams worked as a Professor in English at Colorado College. In 1966, he began to work part time so he could dedicate more of his time to photography. In 1970, he became a full time photographer.
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AwardsAdams has received the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundation fellowships .
In 2006, he won the Deutsche Börse Prize and in 2009, he was awarded the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. |
CritiquesSean O'Hagan, a critic writing for the Guardian wrote that "his subject has been the American west: its vastness, its sparse beauty and its ecological fragility.
. . . What he has photographed constantly – in varying shades of grey – is what has been lost and what remains" and that "his work's other great subtext" is silence. |