"From early on, very early on, I understood that art is not about what you say. It’s about these other things that you don’t say."
"A second growth stump on top of a first growth stump, Coos County, Oregon" (1999-2003)
"A second growth stump on top of a first growth stump, Coos County, Oregon," 1999-2003
From the series "Turning Back" Gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches
© Robert Adams
Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
From the series "Turning Back" Gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches
© Robert Adams
Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
"The picture- the stump- was terrible, and we knew it as we worked at it. And I actually didn’t print it for a while, but I came back to it and did. And then events followed. And a year or two or three, I suppose, after it was taken, I was looking at it and I suddenly sensed there’s a resemblance between that picture and the terrible picture of the person being abused with the wires at Abu Ghraib. It’s not a one-to-one but there is an odd something there that I can’t shake from my mind."
- Robert Adams
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