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Background information
"Two hundred years ago, Lewis and Clark reported finding in the American Northwest a vast forest of ancient evergreens. In 'Turning Back', Robert ADAMS looks again at the region’s trees, discovering evidence both of America’s failure and of a continuing promise. 'Going east,' Robert ADAMS suggests, 'was more difficult than going west.'
Content
The out-of-print photo volume 'Turning Back' by Robert ADAMS documents two kinds of predictive evidence. On the one hand Robert ADAMS observes the results of greed so unrestrained that they are indistinguishable from those of nihilism. On the other we see what still lives, whether by our design or neglect, or providence. From coastal landscapes populated with tourists to timber clear-cutting and small family farms in Oregon, the photo book 'Turning Back' by Robert ADAMS reflects what was lost, what is retained, and what we value as a people with a common history." (© Fraenkel Gallery, 2005)
Book review
"'Turning back' by Robert ADAMS is not a 'coffee table' book, but one which requires serious thought and study. Ostensibly about clear cutting in Oregon, it is a commentry on our world and what we are doing to it. He does offer hope but it is a thin one. It should be essential study for all photographers involved in environmental photography, in fact anyone concerned with our present attitudes to the world we all live in. Robert ADAMS most important book yet,but a demanding book to 'read'." (a buyer)
About US-american photographer Robert ADAMS (b.1937)
Photo books by Robert ADAMS
- Photographer(s)
- Robert ADAMS (USA)
- Format
- HC (with dust jacket), 26 x 30,5 cm., 234 pp., 164 tritone b/w ills.
- Language(s)
- English
- Year of Release
- 2005
- Publisher
- Fraenkel Gallery, USA
- Print run details
- 1st print run,