Robert Adams: Colorado in the 1980s - Gone?
Gottingen: Steidl, 2010.
First Edition. Hardcover.
First Edition. Afterword by Heinz Liesbrock. The pictures for Gone? were taken between 1984 and 1987 in Adams's home region in Colorado, and reflect the artist's concern for the welfare of the Western landscape. The photographs "derive their strength from a special familiarity with the locality, an acquaintance he had built up through many seasons on long walks. The photographs accordingly reveal what is characteristic of the landscape: the shades of the light, the particular ground cover of grass or bushes or trees, the movement of the clouds" (from the afterword).
Robert Adam's commentary: "In middle age I revisited a number of marginal but beautiful landscapes that I had taken for granted when I was a boy. As I walked through them I sometimes asked myself whether in coming years they would survive overpopulation, corporate capitalism, and new technology. On those days when I was lucky, however, my questions fell away into the quiet and the light. It has been many years now since I left Colorado, and occasionally friends there tell me of what has been lost. We share our griefs, but not infrequently the conversation turns to recollecting scarcely believable glories - near miracles - and we pledge to look again."
Item #902395ISBN: 9783865219176
10-1/8 x 10-1/8", beige cloth with silver print, yellow endpapers, unpaginated, fully illustrated with Robert Adams stunning black and white photographs.
Clean, bright, crisp, tight, very fine in dust wrapper and protective mylar.
Price: $70.00