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Colorado Springs, Colorado
Creator
Robert AdamsAmerican Photographer · 1937–present
All works by this person →Robert Adams has photographed the landscape of the American West for more than forty years, particularly in California, Colorado and Oregon. His vision is inspired by his joy in nature's inherent beauty, yet tempered by his dismay at its exploitation and degradation. Adams uses photography to express his love for the landscape and to understand how urban and industrial growth have changed it, all
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- 1968–1970
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
In the late 1960s and early 1970s Robert Adams explored new housing tracts that were being built along the Colorado Front Range. Certain elements of this new landscape recur in his photographs: uniform, boxy houses, concrete, cars, and dirt plots--as well as a sense of loneliness and isolation. "People had moved to enjoy nature, but found that nature was mostly inaccessible except on weekends," Adams wrote. "Often little of it was even visible out the window. The puzzle became how to live inside."
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