Publisher's description
A now classic text on the art, Why People Photograph gathers a selection of essays by the great master photographer Robert Adams, tackling such diverse subjects as collectors, humor, teaching, money and dogs. Adams also writes brilliantly on Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Laura Gilpin, Judith Joy Ross, Susan Meiselas, Michael Schmidt, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Eugène Atget. The book closes with two essays on “working conditions” in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West, and the essay “Two Landscapes.” Adams writes: “At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
Specifications
| Book title | Why People Photograph |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Selected Essays and Reviews |
| Photographer | Robert Adams |
| ISBN 10 | 0893816035 / 0-89381-603-5 |
| ISBN 13 | 9780893816032 / 978-0-89381-603-2 |
| Publisher | Aperture |
| Publish date | Jun 2005 |
| Publish year | 2005 |
| Book format | Paperback |
| Pages | 189 pages |
| Dimensions | 14 x 21 cm / 8.28 x 5.53 x 0.64 inches |
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