Robert Adams: Sea Stories

Photographic observations of migratory shore birds, the beach, ocean, and sky in Washington State’s North Beach. As the artist writes, the moments of connection and beauty are “less an answer to our questions than a rephrasing of them as consolations.”

Black-and-white horizontal photograph of birds on a beach
Black and white horizontal photograph of birds on a beach
Black-and-white horizontal photograph of birds on a beach
Black-and-white horizontal photograph of birds on a beach
Two black-and-white horizontal photographs of birds on a beach
Three black-and-white horizontal photograph of birds on a beach
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Robert Adams: The New West
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