Mapping the Traces Man Leaves on the Land -> Andy Grundberg on Robert Adams in the New York Times →
Although they share a surname and a reverence for the American West, one would be hard pressed to find two more dissimilar landscape photographers than Ansel Adams and Robert Adams. The widespread popularity of Ansel Adams’s pictures is rooted in a purposeful exclusion: he photographed primarily in wilderness preserves and eliminated all signs of human presence. Robert Adams’s images focus on the frontier between the human and natural worlds, showing us what the land looks like once it has become inhabited. Consequently they are both more convincing and more disturbing.
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