"In the late photo book 'Around the House' Robert ADAMS allows us to take a look at his very personal surroundings. The b/w photographs gathered here can hardly be called special, but it is the private sphere that makes this volume so extraordinarily interesting." (© Richard G. SPORLEDER)
"Looking intently at the house in Astoria, Oregon, that he and his wife Kerstin have shared for almost 20 years, Adams focuses on the details that define 'home': a kitchen table, books and paintings, wooden carvings and calligraphy (created by both Robert ADAMS and his wife), flowers in vases, and the darkroom with its tools of the artist’s trade.
Periodically shifting to porch or garden, as one might step outside over the course of a day, Robert ADAMS’s photographs convey appreciation of the nearly imperceptible changes in familiar surroundings: the view of the Columbia River, the play of light on leaves, and most especially the ever-shifting clouds.
In his earlier series such as 'Prairie, 'Denver', 'Our Lives and Our Children', and 'California', Robert ADAMS has often explored the larger question of the places we call home.
His recent photographs suggest that a person’s most powerful connections with the land begin in the very place one lives." (publisher's note, © Fraenkel Gallery)
- Photographer(s)
- Robert ADAMS (USA)
- Format
- Pb., 21 x 24 cm., 84 pp., 71 b/w ills.
- Language(s)
- English
- Year of Release
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fraenkel Gallery, USA
- Print run details
- 1st print run, out of print