Robert Adams: Our Lives and Our Children: Photographs Taken Near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant 1979-1983

ISBN-13: 9783958290976 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 160 str.

Joshua Chuang; Robert Adams

Opis

One day in the early 1970s, Robert Adams (born 1937) and his wife saw from their home a column of smoke rise above the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, near Denver, Colorado. For an hour they watched the plume grow and experienced a sense of helplessness before what appeared to be a nuclear accident in progress. Ultimately it was announced that the fire was burning outside the plant, but Adams decided to try to picture what stood to be lost in a nuclear catastrophe. He photographed in Denver and its suburbs; the individuals shown were within hazardous proximity to the Rocky Flats Plant. The new Steidl edition of Our Lives and Our Children presents an expanded sequence that retains the potent compactness of the first edition (out of print for nearly three decades).

O autorze

Robert Adams, born in 1937 in New Jersey, has photographed the geography of the American West for over forty years. His work has been widely exhibited both in Europe and the United States, including in the seminal 1975 exhibition "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape." His more than forty
publications include "What We Bought", "Our Lives and Our Children", and "Turning Back". Steidl has published "Gone?" (2010), "Tree Line" (2010) and "The Place We Live" (2013). Adams is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Spectrum International Prize for Photography, the Hasselblad Award, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.