"I use a lot of repetition. And it becomes a filmic way of talking because as you put the same image after the other, even though it’s the exact identical image, everyone sees something changing from one image to the next."
"From Lookout Mountain, at Buffalo Bill’s Grave. Jefferson County, Colorado" (1970)
"From Lookout Mountain, at Buffalo Bill’s Grave. Jefferson County, Colorado," 1970
Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches
© Robert Adams
Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches
© Robert Adams
Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
"Natural light has a mysterious quality that is always perfect. You can’t screw up natural light (you can use it more or less effectively), but it’s perhaps the compelling mystery. It’s why you become a photographer. To paraphrase Paul Caponigro, quoted by John Szarkowski, your decision to make a photograph is a kind of seduction, and the seduction is worked by light. Kenneth Clark remarked in one of his books that the thing that distinguishes a landscape painter is an especially intense emotional response to light. And I do believe that’s true."
- Robert Adams
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