Robert Adams valuation
American photographer of the changing landscape of the American West, and one of the New Topographics.
Robert Adams (born 1937) was born in Orange, New Jersey, and moved with his family to Wheat Ridge, Colorado, outside Denver, in 1952.
What a work by Robert Adams is worth
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Bio
Robert Adams (born 1937) was born in Orange, New Jersey, and moved with his family to Wheat Ridge, Colorado, outside Denver, in 1952. He came to prominence in the mid-1970s with The New West (1974), photographs of tract housing, roads and new suburbs along the Colorado Front Range, and with his place in New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, the 1975 exhibition at the George Eastman House in Rochester that gave a name to a way of photographing the built landscape. His pictures look plainly and quietly at what settlement has done to the land, and he has written about photography in essays, among them Beauty in Photography. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Hasselblad Award.
What comes to market is mostly gelatin silver prints, many of them small, made from his own negatives and often in limited numbers. A buyer will want to know when the print was made, since prints made close to the date of the negative are treated differently from later ones, whether it is signed, titled and dated on the reverse, and where it came from. Prints should be checked for silvering, scuffs and creases, and for fading or staining from old mounts.
At a glance
- Born
- 1937, Orange, New Jersey
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