{"product_id":"robert-adams-robert-adams-9781881337591","title":"Robert Adams: Contact","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compendium of never-before-published contact sheets from the iconic documentarian of the American West, spanning decades and formats, replete with his red-marker frame selections and handwritten notes \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Adams' photographs of the Western landscape are iconic reminders of nature's resilience in the face of human development. But as this collection of never-before-published contact sheets shows, his precise arrangements of clouds, trees and roads under clear Colorado light were not inevitable. Instead, they are the result of Adams' relentless searching for form and his inimitable, exacting photographic technique, as evidenced by prints marked with cropping lines, exposure times and other notes. The book pairs around 50 photographs with their original contact sheets, each showing the exposures from a single roll of medium format film, or with contact-printed 4x5 negatives and pencil-drawn printing guides. The photographs span 20 years, from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, just before Adams traded these larger negatives for a nimbler 35mm camera. Artifacts from an age when every serious photograph was a handmade object, the contact sheets offer a graphic record of what Adams was seeking, and what he set aside. As Jeffrey Fraenkel writes in his introduction, Adams' contact sheets \"remind us [Adams] was never looking for the perfect picture. He looked until the picture became one.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Adams\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1937 in Orange, New Jersey. He became a photographer in the mid-1960s and has published more than 40 books of photographs, with the changing landscape of the American West as his primary subject. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe New West\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Spring\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eListening to the River\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), \u003ci\u003eTurning Back\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), \u003ci\u003eTenancy\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) and \u003ci\u003eThalia\u003c\/i\u003e (2024). Adams lives and works in the Pacific Northwest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Adams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1881337596\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781881337591\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fraenkel Gallery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Robert Adams","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48997575000319,"sku":"9781881337591","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/robert-adams-robert-adams-9781881337591","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}