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.
Fraenkel Gallery will be closed starting Thursday, November 28. We will reopen Tuesday, December 3 for the final weeks of our Kota Ezawa exhibition.
In photographs made in the vicinity of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, the artist asks what we are willing to risk.
In photographs made in the vicinity of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, the artist asks what we are willing to risk.
Modest in size and painted in springlike hues with block-printing ink, these simplified compositions draw on the stillness and grandeur that Adams remembers from his time spent on the Colorado prairie.
In a seminal series of images representing the suburban Southwest, Adams shows the brutal squalor of suburban architecture and its effect on the landscape, as well as the hopeful aspects of nature that are beyond our impact.
A look at the man-made cityscape, abutted by the magnificent rise of the Rocky Mountains. “Many have asked, pointing incredulously toward a sweep of tract houses and billboards, why picture that?… One reason is…we need to improve things at home, and that to do it we have to see the facts without blinking.” – Robert Adams
These quiet and poignant photographs of the American Prairie and its inhabitants describe a humble perseverance, and a reason for hope.