Robert Adams in "Ecology" - Season 4 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21
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- Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring Robert Adams, from the "Ecology" episode in Season 4 of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series.
"Ecology" premiered in November 2007 on PBS.
While living in Colorado Springs, Robert Adams began to capture black and white photographs of a burgeoning suburban strip-highways and tract houses that marred a dramatic landscape-a development that he loathed. Yet when Adams examined the images in his darkroom, he recognized for the first time the beauty within these pictures.
Robert Adams was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1937. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/arti...
CREDITS
Created by: Susan Sollins & Susan Dowling. Executive Producer & Curator: Susan Sollins. Series Producer: Eve-Laure Moros Ortega. Associate Producer: Migs Wright. Associate Curator: Wesley Miller. Production Manager: Alice Bertoni & Nick Ravich. Production Coordinator: Amanda Donnan & Meredith Klein. Consulting Director: Catherine Tatge. Editor: Steven Wechsler. Director of Photography: Bob Elfstrom, Mark Falstad, Mead Hunt, & Joel Shapiro. Additional Photography: Christine Burrill, Alice Bertoni, & John Gordon Hill. Sound: Tom Bergin, Ray Day, Doug Dunderdale, Heidi Hesse, Mark Mandler, Gabriel Monts, Roger Phenix, Yuri Raicin, & Charles Tomaras. Audio Technician: Drew Weir. Assistant Camera: Craig Feldman & Brian Hwang. Jib Arm Operator: Scott Hoffman. Production Assistant: Carlos Moncada & David Nugent. Additional Animation: Shawn Dunbar.
Major underwriting for Season 4 of “Art in the Twenty-First Century” was provided by National Endowment for the Arts, PBS, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Bloomberg, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Bagley Wright Fund, and W.L.S. Spencer Foundation.
Full credits available at art21.org/watc...
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There are a lot of surprises in photography […]. It's one of the great enlivening blessings of the medium. (5:20)
I think the reason I care about that awful place was not only that it sat within about 6 feet away from the road that they had the temerity to cut this tree, but this contemptuous beer can. Boy, does that capture what this landscape does to the spirit. It brings out everything desperately close to nihilism in everybody who pass it by. It's a breathing ground for contempt. (7:10)
If you haven't loved a tree enough to - if not hug it - at least want to walk up to it and touch it, as if you're touching a profound mystery. If that experience has eluded you, I feel bad for you. (9:21)
Beauty, which I admit being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world, but I don't think you can get along without it. It's a confirmation, frankly, of meaning in life. (10:56)
Much love ❤️ 🙏
What I am about to state is the ululating obvious, and by no means original, but it is hard not to draw a comparison between Edward Hopper and Robert Adams work, and I don't mean this as a purely aesthetic, visual experience, but the stuff that happens in one's mind looking at a flat image. Both works have an American mood, silent and contemplative, present only in an American urban arena, and nowhere else. I was born in Brazil, but lived in the US for 17 years, and looking at this work, I feel as if I am standing on the American soil, and nowhere else.
Yep!
“I came back to Colorado to discover that it had become like California. . . . The places where I had worked, hunted, climbed, and run rivers were all being destroyed, and for me the desperate question was, how do I survive this? Edward Hopper’s paintings had already given me a clue, though I didn’t fully understand it.”
-From an interview in Landscape: Theory (New York: Lustrum Press, 1980)
The reproductions of his images in this clip are of terrible quality, and certainly not representative of Adams' work.
Its a show from 2007, read the description.
I don't want you feeling bad because I don't see the world the way you do. You need to acknowledge that yours isn't "The One True Way."