{"product_id":"robert-adams-the-new-west","title":"Robert Adams: The New West","description":"\u003cb\u003e'Though Robert Adams' book assumes no moral postures, it does have a moral. Its moral is that the landscape is, for us, the place we live.' - John Szarkowski\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe open American West is nearly gone. The New West is a photographic essay about what came to fill it-freeways, tract homes, low-rise business buildings and signs. In five sequences of pictures taken along the front wall of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, Robert Adams has documented a representative sampling of the whole suburban Southwest. These views have a double power. At first they shock; normally we try to forget the commercial squalor they depict. Slowly, however, they reveal aspects of the geography-the shape of the land itself, for example-that are beyond man's harm. Adams has written that \"all land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty,\" and his photographs show this.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1974, \u003ci\u003eThe New West\u003c\/i\u003e is now regarded as a classic, standing alongside Walker Evans's \u003ci\u003eAmerican Photographs\u003c\/i\u003e and Robert Frank's \u003ci\u003eThe Americans\u003c\/i\u003e in the pantheon of landmark volumes of photography exploring American culture and society. This new edition marks the book's fortieth anniversary and the beginning of a long-term commitment by Steidl to publish the full extent Robert Adams's remarkable body of work.","brand":"Steidl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42665548644388,"sku":"9783869309002","price":61.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9783869309002.jpg?v=1778211328","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/robert-adams-the-new-west","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}