Robert Adams Quotes


You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.


Citations

Adams, Robert. Along Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversations. Aperture, 2006, p. 27.

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  • Born: May 8, 1937
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Photographer

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.