Robert Adams is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through his book The New West and his participation in the exhibition New Topographic: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape in 1975.He looked at aesthetically pleasing photos. He was an environmentalist and usually photographed landscapes and natural enjoinment – similar to Ansel Adams, however they have no relation to each other. Robert Adams is an American photographer best known for his images of the American West. Offering solemn meditations on the landscapes of California, Colorado, and Oregon, Adams’s black-and-white photos document the changes wrought by humans upon nature.

Adams quotes- “I think if you placed me almost anywhere and gave me a camera you could return the next day to find me photographing. It helps me, more than anything I know, to find home.” This shows us his passion of taking photograph’s and his passion for it.

Typologies

 A system used for putting things into groups according to how they are similar : the study of how things can be divided into different types. Eg photographing farm houses- multiple of them as a collective group.

Robert Adams uses Typologies’.

The making of Typologies – Robert Adams

Robert Adams is a photographer who has documented the extent and the limits of our damage to the American West, recording there, in over fifty books of pictures Adams grew up in New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Colorado, in each place enjoying the out-of-­doors, often in company with his father. He was a very successful photographer and had many different exhibitions , making good money and becoming a very well known photographer , he was best known for his images of the American West. Adams’s black-and-white photos document the changes wrought by humans upon nature. Adams began to take photography seriously, learning techniques from professional photographer Myron Wood. In the 1970s, he was released the book The New West (1974), and a year later was included in the seminal exhibition “New Topographic”. Therefore making this a new big thing, still used today. Today, his works can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. Adams has become one of the most profound photographer’s in history and he did make history within his photographer’s.