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Interviewee:

Adams, Robert, 1937-  Search this

Interviewer:

Jurovics, Toby, 1965-  Search this

Names:

Denver Art Museum  Search this

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Fellows in Photography  Search this

MacArthur Fellows Program  Search this

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984  Search this

Baltz, Lewis, 1945-2014  Search this

Castelli, Leo  Search this

Gowin, Emmet, 1941-  Search this

Hoffman, Michael  Search this

Newhall, Beaumont, 1908-1993  Search this

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882  Search this

Szarkowski, John  Search this

Wood, Myron  Search this

Extent:

43 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2010 July 20

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Robert Adams conducted 2010 July 20, by Toby Jurovics, for the Archives of American Art, at Adams' home, in Astoria, Oregon.

Robert Adams speaks of compensating his early struggles with polio with activity outdoors; his close relationship with his father through outdoor expeditions; visiting the Denver Art Museum as a teenager; years of study and experimentation with photography on his own and under the direction of Myron Wood; the financial struggle of transitioning from an English professor to a full-time photographer; the outcome of his work under the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundation Fellowships; his first sale of photographs to the Museum of Modern Art; the role of spirituality and morality in art; environmental and societal concerns such as deforestation, climate change, and overpopulation that inform much of his work; the foreboding change in landscape he has observed in the American West since the 1970s; his concern that future generations of landscape photographers may not share the same connection with the land as he has experienced; the need to change society's domineering view of the wilderness; the working relationship he shares with his wife, Kerstin; the process of publishing his photographs and the importance of quality materials and printing in these publications; the sequence of the books he has published as a reflection of his life experiences. Adams also recalls Michael Hoffman, John Szarkowski, Myron Wood, Lewis Baltz, Leo Castelli, Beaumont Newhall, Emmet Gowin, Ansel Adams, Timothy O'Sullivan, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Robert Adams (1937- ) is a photographer in Astoria, Oregon. Toby Jurovics (1965- ) is curator of photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

General:

Originally recorded on 3 memory cards. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 57 min.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Restrictions:

Audio: ACCESS RESTRICTED; use requires written permission. Contact Archives Reference Services for information.

Use of the audio of this interview, with permission, requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives of American Art reading rooms.

Topic:

Global environmental change  Search this

Landscape photography  Search this

Photographers -- Oregon -- Interviews  Search this

Photography -- Study and teaching  Search this

Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- Rehabilitation  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Brown Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.adams10

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b69a063f-cad0-4419-837f-79627e7aa458

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-adams10

Interviewee:

Adams, Robert Hickman, 1937-  Search this

Interviewer:

Jurovics, Toby, 1965-  Search this

Subject:

Adams, Ansel  Search this

Baltz, Lewis  Search this

Castelli, Leo  Search this

Gowin, Emmet  Search this

Hoffman, Michael  Search this

Newhall, Beaumont  Search this

O'Sullivan, Timothy H.  Search this

Szarkowski, John  Search this

Wood, Myron  Search this

Denver Art Museum  Search this

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Fellows in Photography  Search this

MacArthur Fellows Program  Search this

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Robert Adams, 2010 July 20. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Global environmental change  Search this

Landscape photography  Search this

Photographers -- Oregon -- Interviews  Search this

Photography -- Study and teaching  Search this

Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- Rehabilitation  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)15886

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)295750

AAA_collcode_adams10

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_295750

Author:

Philadelphia College of Art Photography Department  Search this

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation  Search this

Physical description:

62 p. chiefly illus. 29 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Place:

United States

Date:

1966

1966]

Topic:

Photography  Search this

Photography, Artistic  Search this

Photographers  Search this

Call number:

TR646.U6 P5

TR646.U6P5

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_47472

Author:

Philadelphia College of Art Photography Department  Search this

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation  Search this

Physical description:

62 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Place:

United States

Date:

1966

1966]

Topic:

Photography, Artistic  Search this

Photographers  Search this

Call number:

TR646.U5 P54

TR646.U5P54

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_119490