Artist:

Robert Adams, born Orange, NJ 1937  Search this

Medium:

gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

sheet: 6 x 7 5/8 in. (15.1 x 19.3 cm)

Type:

Photography-Photoprint

Date:

1973

Exhibition Label:

As both a photographer and writer, Robert Adams is committed to describing the western American landscape as both awe-inspiring and scarred by man. In New Housing, Longmont, Colorado, Adams contrasted the vast space of the distant landscape view with a foreground image of the wall of a newly constructed suburban tract house. Adams invites a consideration of the balance between myth and reality and the land as home as well as scenic backdrop.

A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2013

Topic:

Occupation\industry\construction  Search this

Landscape\mountain  Search this

Cityscape\Colorado\Longmont  Search this

Architecture Exterior\domestic\house  Search this

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts

Copyright:

© 1973, Robert Adams

Object number:

1983.63.9

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Department:

Graphic Arts

Data Source:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7505ae68c-8511-49ec-a652-9973e64a7715

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:saam_1983.63.9