The Place We Live, Volumes I,II and III, by Robert Adams

(2010)

First edition multivolume set, published in conjunction with the exhibition Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs 1964-2009.

Large format hardbacks in fine condition. Some shelf wear to the dust jackets. Otherwise, pages clean and binding firm.

248 pages, 197 tritone illustrations (vol. 1)

220 pages, 197 tritone illustrations (vol. 2)

164 pages, 281 tritone illustrations (vol. 3) 

About

Photographer Robert Adams (born 1937) is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential chroniclers of the American West, renowned for his austere views of a landscape profoundly changed by human development. This stunning three-volume set—printed with an unprecedented fidelity to the photographer’s master prints—accompanied a major traveling exhibition and was the first publication to comprehensively survey Adams’s 45-year career.

Presenting an epic sequence of nearly 400 tritone plates, Robert Adams: The Place We Live features selections from all of Adams’s major projects, including his seminal work in the suburbs of Colorado Springs and Denver and his most recent, elegiac portrayals of trees in the Pacific Northwest. Also included is an anthology of texts by the photographer, a series of critical essays on Adams’s life and work, and an illustrated bibliography and chronology that will shed new light on one of the central American artists of our time.