Robert Adams Quotes
I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.
Adams, Robert. The Place We Live. Yale University Art Gallery, 2010, p. 15.
This is a useful quotation which although originally intended to apply to the sciences, political theories and ideology are often also impervious to modification even in the face of facts of failed policies or programs. Economic theories are particularly susceptible to still being believed in the face of contradicting facts.
Robert Adams is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through his book The New West (1974) and his participation in the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape in 1975. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Hasselblad Award.
