Robert Adams: The Place We Live: A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964-2009 (Three Volume Set) de Adams, Robert

Yale, 2010. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Hardbound. As New (individually shrinkwrapped. Cardboard slipcase has soiling and wear.. 3 vols. Cream-colored cloth, gray or blue dust jackets, 627 pp., many illustrations. Issued in original publisher's box. A massive 3-volume set, never read. A compiled description as follows: First edition, first printing. Three volumes, sharing the following format: Hardcover. Fine beige cloth-covered boards with title debossed on cover and stamped in blue on spine; with printed dust jacket. Photographs and text by Robert Adams. Essays by Joshua Chuang, Tod Papageorge, Jock Reynolds and John Szarkowski. Designed by Katy Homans. 589 pp., with approximately 400 tritone plates exquisitely printed on heavy matt paper in East Greenwich, Rhode Island by Meridian Printing, from separations by Thomas Palmer. Photographer Robert Adams (b. 1937) is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential chroniclers of the American West, renowned for his austere views of a… Leer más

New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shipping box.. Small Folio. Original cream cloth with blind-stamped lettering on covers, blue on spine, in original gray, respectively blue dustjackets, photo-illustrated on back covers, housed in original printed publisher's white cardboard box. Cream textured endpapers. Frontispiece photographs. The set contains six hundred and seventy-five tritone plates. "The title is taken from John Szarkowski's foreword to The New West (1974). He wrote that the moral of the book is that "the landscape is, for us, the place we live. If we have used it badly, we cannot therefore scorn it, without scorning ourselves. If we abused it, broken its health, and erected upon it memorials to our ignorance, it is still our place, and before we can proceed we must learn to love it." (Preface) Adams considers any retrospective book as part of an autobiography. He cites the German poet Hölderlin "To live is to defend a form,"… Leer más

Yale University Press. New. 2011. Hardcover. 0300141378 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- THREE (3) VOLUME SET. 627 pages, many illustrations in black and white and in color. -- with a bonus offer-- .