| Robert
Adams
American, born 1937
Many of Adams’s photographs are studies of landscape
around Denver, showing how its natural beauty has been scarred by
human habitation. The series What We Bought: The New World
(1970-4) reflects his shock, on returning to the area after several
years, to see the expansion of polluted suburbia into this previously
unspoilt area. Rather than revelling in the beauty of the American
West, these black and white images draw our attention to telegraph
poles, parking lots, shopping malls and advertisements. |