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Robert Adams, The Place We Live
Robert Adams
The Place We Live
A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964–2009
“Are there affirmable days or places in our deteriorating world? Are there scenes in life, right now, for which we might
conceivably be thankful? Is there a basis for joy or serenity, even if felt only occasionally? Are there grounds now and
then for an unironic smile?” Robert Adams
The Place We Live traces Adams’ deep engagement with the geography of the American West, weaving together
various aspects of over four decades of work into a cohesive, epic narrative of the American experience. Taken as a
whole, this publication elucidates the photographer’s civic goals: to consider the privilege of the place we were given
and the obligations of citizenship. Printed with an unprecedented fidelity to the photographer’s original prints, volumes
one and two reflect Adams’ exacting, compelling sequence of nearly four hundred plates and bring together texts written
by the photographer to accompany his photographic projects. Volume three offers a detailed chronology of Adams’ life,
an illustrated bibliography of his monographs, selections from his personal archive, and a series of critical essays on his
work by Joshua Chuang, Tod Papageorge, Jock Reynolds and John Szarkowski.
Robert Adams, born in 1937 in New Jersey, first came to prominence in the early 1970s. His work has been shown
widely both in Europe and the United States, including in the landmark 1975 exhibition New Topographics. Steidl has
published Gone? (2010) and Tree Line (2010)
Exhibitions: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 11 March to 3 June, 2012; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven,
3 August to 28 October, 2012; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 22 January to 13 May, 2013;
Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop, Summer 2013; Media Space, London, Fall 2013; Jeu de Paume, Paris,
Spring 2014; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Summer 2014.
Volume 1 Volume 2
Volume 3 Slipcase
Co-published with Yale University Art Gallery
Robert Adams
The Place We Live
Essays by Joshua Chuang, Tod Papageorge, Jock Reynolds
and John Szarkowski
Book design by Katy Homans and Joshua Chuang
Vol. 1: 248 pages / Vol. 2: 220 pages / Vol. 3: 164 pages
9.7 x 11.8 in. / 24.5 x 30 cm
460 photographs
Tritone and four colour process
Three clothbound hardcovers with dust jackets,
housed in a slipcase
€ 225.00 / £ 180.00 / US$ 295.00
ISBN 978-3-86930-533-2
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