Robert Adams | The Place We Live | Yale University Art Gallery - Chronology (2005)
Yale University Art Gallery
Robert Adams: The Place We Live

Exhibition Turning Back opens at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Notes in a letter, “They have constructed circular benches built to the diameters of old-growth conifers, and a freestanding circular room, also to the tree dimensions, for showing a tape. Once in a lifetime.”

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The exhibitions are well reviewed. To Adams’s disappointment, however, the publication of these photographs goes relatively unnoticed, especially in the Northwest.

“Still photography doesn’t seem to have much of anywhere to go these days as a means of contributing directly to the social dialogue (that seems to be reserved for film and video). Its job is more to address matters that are personal, those having to do with the intersection of this world and another, a focus closer to that of representational painters and printmakers.”
—From notes made in 2005

Publishes Pine Valley, Turning Back, and A Portrait in Landscapes.

Publishes Along Some Rivers and Still Lives at Manzanita.