Summer Nights, Walking Along the Colorado Front Range 1976 - 1982
New York / New Haven: Aperture / Yale University Art Gallery, 2009.
First Revised Edition. Hardcover.
A first revised and expanded edition of the Robert Adams classic collection of nocturnal photographs first published in 1985 as Summer Nights. Adams began taking the photographs in the mid-1970s. The images here have been reedited and substantially enlarged to document more accurately a mixed landscape – one notable for its beauty, occasional threat, and, above all, mystery. “I think this is a better likeness of the world,” Adams has said, “and still one that doesn’t rule out promise.” The plates in this new edition were made from Robert Adams's master sets, which reside at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.
From the photographer's forward: "We remember from childhood the beauty and peace of summer evenings, and we long to believe that what we saw then is timeless. It was this hope that guided my selection of pictures for the first version of the book, Summer Nights, in 1985. In recent years, however, when I have looked again at the photographs that I might have chosen but did not, it has seemed to me that if I had included a wider variety, the result would have been, though less harmonious, more convincing, closer to our actual experience of wonder, anxiety, and stillness. The prayer by William Blake that prefaced the original book remains, I believe, appropriate for this revision and expansion, acknowledging as it does the splendor of the Creation but also the reality of the wolf and the lion.” Appended by a word from Emily Dickinson.
Item #902389ISBN: 9781597111171
8-3/4 x 8-3/4", black cloth with silver print, gray endpapers, unpaginated, 64 full-page photographs.
Fine in dust wrapper and rubbed wraparound band, in protective mylar.
Price: $150.00