Robert Adams: Our Lives and Our Children

In photographs made in the vicinity of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, the artist asks what we are willing to risk.

Black and white photograph of a female figure walking in between cars in parking lot along with a small child
Black-and-white photograph of a person looking to the left in front of a parking lot filled with cars
Black-and-white photograph of two women and two children loading items into a Volkswagen hatchback car, a woman wearing sunglasses watches from the background
Black and white photograph of a seated female figure outside at a park with a dog
Black and white photograph of a female figure with arms crossed looking down
Black and white photograph of a child exiting a car and standing in a parking lot with littered debris
Black-and-white photograph of a family walking through a parking lot filled with cars
Black and white photograph of two female figures walking side by side outside amongst construction
Black and white photograph of a child seated in a stroller on a sidewalk
Black and white photograph of a figure blurred in front of a pharmacy
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Wooden artwork with etchings and ink depicting a road and field with large white cloud

Robert Adams: The Plains, from Memory
A black and white photograph of an empty street lined with businesses.

Robert Adams: The New West
Black and white photograph of a suburban neighborhood adjacent to a field with a few abandoned cars

Robert Adams: Denver
Black and white photograph of open grasslands with a small cluster of trees and houses in the distance, under a cloudy sky.

Robert Adams: Prairie