Robert Adams was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1937. He went to the University of Redlands in California for his undergrad and then went to the University of Southern Califortnia, where he recieved his PHD. His work is a contradiction between landscapes transformed, human presence and the beauty of light and land rendered by the camera. The photos reflect the hollowness during the nineteenth century. He received some awards such as the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award in 1994 and the Spectrum International Prize for Photography in 1995. He's had exhibits in the Yale University Art Gallery in 2002, Denver Art Museum in 1993 and the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1989.
His photographs particularly caught my attention because it was usually people departing from each other or people by themselves in an open area. My favorite piece of work is "Dead Plant, Barbed Wire, and Razor Wire, Palos Verdes, California."I like this photograph because something as simple as barb wire can look so fascinating because of the shape and the way the wire twists.The photos capture the physical traces of human life such as a clear-cut forest or a half-built house. I like how in each picture my eye is drawn to a specific section.
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