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Originally published in 1974, Robert Adams' The New West signaled a paradigm shift in the photographic representation of American landscapes. Foregoing photography's traditional role of romanticizing the Western landscape, Adams focused instead on the construction of tract and mobile homes, subdivisions, shopping centers and urban sprawl in the suburbs of Colorado Springs and the Denver area. Adams transmuted these zones with his minimalist vision of their austerity; as he has noted, "no place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film." Objective and direct, Adams' photographs, rendered in his signature middle-gray scale, unsentimentally depict a despoiled landscape washed in the intense Colorado sunlight. Today The New West stands alongside Walker Evans' American Photographs, Robert Frank's The Americans and Stephen Shore's Uncommon Places in the pantheon of landmark projects on American culture and society. This second reissue of the classic publication has been recreated from Adams' original prints, and will be released ahead of a major traveling exhibition that will launch in 2010. Foreword by John Szarkowski.
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"Irony abounds here: a neon gas station sign sports the word 'Frontier,' and a 'Buffalo for Sale' sign along the highway boasts one lonely buffalo in the photograph. Cow culture has given way to car culture--drive-in restaurants and movie theaters. Graffiti is scribbled on Lookout Mountain--modern-day cave paintings." --B&W: Black & White Magazine
"Adams' book helped create a new kind of landscape photography, tough-minded about the mess humans make, that's been pursued by Richard Misrach, Edward Burtynsky and scores of others. " -- Richard Lacayo --Time Magazine
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Robert Adams: The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 3rd Edition. Hardcover third edition, first printing in brown boards has minor shelf-wear, tight, bright, and unmarked. White photographic jacket in new mylar cover has slight edge-wear to front cover. 2006 exhibit brochure laid in. A very nice copy, not ex-library. Seller Inventory # 011632
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The New West: Landscapes Along The Colorado Front Range
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Third edition. Small oblong hardcover. 120 pages. One of the seminal books in the New Topographics school of photography. Features a foreword by curator, scholar and photographer John Szarkowski and an introduction by Adams. A collection of black and white images divided into several sections: Prairie, Tracts and Mobile Homes, The City, Foothills, and The Mountains. A clean near fine copy in cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket. A very nice copy. Seller Inventory # 215336
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Robert Adams: The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book is in very good condition. 136pp with b/w photographs. Seller Inventory # 014457
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Robert Adams: The New West
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The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 3rd Edition. complete number line - 1st printing of this 3rd edition published in 2008 originally published in 1974, dj now enclosed in mylar wrap shows a tiny spot of soiling to bottom of fold front panel to flap - no tears, chips, creases and original price on the rear panel below the bar-code, Foreword by John Szarkowski, black & white photographs reproduced full page. Seller Inventory # FSR-1413
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 3rd Edition. ADAMS, ROBERT: The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range Introduction by John Szarkowski Aperture 2008 Third Edition hardcover ISBN 9781597110600 Cited in Roth's Book of 101 Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century, pp 226-227. FINE , no marks no writing, in FINE dustjacket, no chips, no tears, no wear. A pristine copy. Dust jacket protected in archival mylar. Seller Inventory # PHO-ADA-735
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The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range John Szarkowski
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Hardcover. Condition: gut. 2008. The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range In englischer Sprache. pages. Seller Inventory # BN521974
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Robert Adams; The New West
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Originally published in 1974, Robert Adams' The New West signaled a paradigm shift in the photographic representation of American landscapes. Foregoing photography's traditional role of romanticizing the Western landscape, Adams focused instead on the construction of tract and mobile homes, subdivisions, shopping centers and urban sprawl in the suburbs of Colorado Springs and the Denver area. Adams transmuted these zones with his minimalist vision of their austerity; as he has noted, "no place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film." Objective and direct, Adams' photographs, rendered in his signature middle-gray scale, unsentimentally depict a despoiled landscape washed in the intense Colorado sunlight. Today The New West stands alongside Walker Evans' American Photographs, Robert Frank's The Americans and Stephen Shore's Uncommon Places in the pantheon of landmark projects on American culture and society. This second reissue of the classic publication has been recreated from Adams' original prints, and will be released ahead of a major traveling exhibition that will launch in 2010. Foreword by John Szarkowski. Seller Inventory # 87256