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Quarried Mesa Top, Pueblo County, 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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- negative 1978; print 1982
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Here Adams presents a landscape of unconventional beauty: a quarried mesa scarred with a serpentine network of tire tracks. Focusing on spaces that are not typically revered for their splendor--but where many people live and work--Adams draws attention to the dignity of the ordinary landscape and the effects of human incursions on it. His photographs and writing encourage responsible stewardship of the environment as a whole, not just those areas set aside for preservation in national parks.
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