Size: 10x0x11; Robert Adams's photographs emphasize the redemptive beauty of

Size: 10x0x11; Robert Adams's photographs emphasize the redemptive beauty of nature in the face of man's widespread and unremitting misuse of the land. Working in the western United States, Adams shows nature not in "protected" isolation in the national parks nor in the remote reaches of such wilderness as still exists, but in a familiar settings and ordinary places. From a clearcut in late afternoon light to a bus illuminated by a street lamp, he focuses on the modest-even banal-aspects of nature, and finds in them the remarkable. Robert Adams (born May 8, 1937) is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through his book The New West (1974) and his participation in the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape in 1975. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Hasselblad Award.