Light balances
By: [photographs by Robert Adams]
Contributors: Matthew Marks Gallery; Fraenkel Gallery
Publisher: Matthew Marks Gallery; Fraenkel Gallery
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY; San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781880146637
Subjects: Exhibitions; Expositions
Other titles: Robert Adams : light balances
Description: With 'Light Balances', Robert Adams (born 1937) delves into the endless permutations of rhythm and contrast that take place between sunlight and trees. Photographing in a protected forest around the Columbia River estuary near the town of Astoria, Oregon, where he has lived since 1997, Adams undertook a study of the area that is Cézanne-like in its single-minded attention to nature's minute shifts and variations. These 59 black-and-white photographs, made between 2005 and 2011, revel in the interplay of sunlight and leaves, branches, trunks, grass and the dirt of the forest floor, attaining a rich variety of texture and pattern that is at once filled with specificities and diffusely abstract. Published concurrently with Adams' international touring retrospective, this beautifully produced volume shows a master photographer eliciting marvelous subtleties from the landscape of the Northwest.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, Sept. 7-Nov. 3, 2012.