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Robert Adams (photographer)

Robert Adams
Born1937 (age 87–88)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known forPhotography
MovementNew Topographics
AwardsDeutsche Börse Photography Prize
2006 Turning Back
Hasselblad Award
2009
ElectedAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters
Websitemedia.artgallery.yale.edu/adams/

Robert Adams (born 1937) is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West.[1][2] His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s[1] through his book The New West (1974) and his participation in the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape in 1975.[1] He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Hasselblad Award.

  1. ^ a b c O'Hagan, Sean (February 16, 2012). "Robert Adams: a photographer with a profound sense of place". The Guardian. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
  2. ^ "Robert Adams", Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

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