Robert Adams
Photographer, Visual Artist
1937 –
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Who is Robert Adams?
Robert Adams is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through the book The New West and the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape. He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in photography in 1973 and 1980, and he received the MacArthur Foundation's MacArthur Fellowship in 1994.
He is represented by the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco and the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.
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- Born
- May 8, 1937
Orange - Also known as
- Robert Hickman Adams
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Redlands
English Language
(1956 - 1959) - PhD, University of Southern California
English Language
(1959 - 1965)
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Redlands
- Lived in
- Astoria
(1997 - )
- Astoria
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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