What We Bought: The New World - Scenes from the Denver Metropolitan Area, 1970-1974
New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery / Yale University Press, 2009.
Second Edition. Hardcover.
First Printing of the Second Edition.
After work on his seminal book The New West, American photographer Robert Adams narrowed his scope to the developing landscape of Denver and produced an unbroken sequence of 193 images published as What We Bought: The New World first published in 1995. In the book, Adams begins at the grassy outskirts of the city and ends at his own front door, surveying the streets, offices, shopping center, and suburban development that have risen in between. "The pictures record what we purchased, what we paid, and what we could not buy," Adams writes in his introduction. "They document a separation from ourselves, and in turn from the natural world that we professed to love."
Item #902390ISBN: 9780300149630
9-1/4 x 8", maroon cloth with embossed spine titles, light gray endpapers, unpaginated (208pp), 193 tritone illustrations.
Clean, bright, crisp, very fine in moderately rubbed dust wrapper and protective mylar.
Price: $75.00