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Two hundred years ago Lewis and Clark reported finding in the American Northwest a vast forest of ancient evergreens. In Turning Back Robert Adams looks again at the region's trees, discovering evidence both of America's failure and of a continuing promise.
President Jefferson's primary charge to Lewis and Clark was to prepare the way for American commerce. They tried to do this, as well as make money for themselves. Historians still speculate about why, upon his return, Lewis lapsed into depression and apparently committed suicide. "Going east," Adams suggests, "was more difficult than going west."
What is the future? Turning Back documents two kinds of predictive evidence. On the one hand we observe the results of greed so unrestrained that they are indistinguishable from those of nihilism. On the other we see what still lives unharmed, whether by our design or neglect or Providence; in these pictures the tone is celebratory, as in a prayer book.
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"Turning Back: A Photographic Journal of Re-Exploration" is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which reported finding a vast forest of ancient evergreens in the American Northwest. In "Turning Back", Robert Adams looks again at the region's trees, discovering evidence, both of America's failure and of a continuing promise. Starting from views of the Pacific beach at the estuary of the Colombia River and moving to the Great Northwest, Adams documents the effects of the logging industry, and the traces it has left on the landscape. From coastal landscapes populated with tourists to timber clear-cutting and small family farms in eastern Oregon, Adams reflects on what was lost, what is retained, and what is valued both regionally and as a people with a common history. This title has been published on the occasion of the exhibition at Haus der Kunst, Munich and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in 2005 - 2006.
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Turning Back
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Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 234 pages. Subtitled: "A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration" this book looks at the damage we have done to some of our forests and landscapes. A powerful collection of black and white photographs. Includes 164 tritones. A fine copy in cloth boards and in a fine dust jacket. A very fresh copy. Seller Inventory # 182990
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fraenkel Gallery, 2005. 4to. Oversized hardcover in dust jacket. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Boards, jacket, and pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Remainder mark to bottom edge. 164 b/w photographs. 234 pp. Seller Inventory # A458
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Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 234 pages with 164 tritone photographs. beautiful copy still in shrinkwrap. Like new. Turning Back: A photographic journal of Re-exploration is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Record # 450304. Seller Inventory # 450304
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Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 234 pages with 164 tritone photographs. beautiful copy still in shrinkwrap. Like new. Turning Back: A photographic journal of Re-exploration is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Record # 367609. Seller Inventory # 367609
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Turning Back
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Robert Adams: Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-Exploration
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Hardcover. First edition. As New clothbound hardcover in dust jacket in the publisher's shrink wrap. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Robert Adams begins at the Pacific Ocean and moves eastward through what was once one of the world's great rain forests. One group of photographs describes the forest's destruction, another section traces a search for hope. The catalogue for a traveling exhibition. Photographs and texts by Robert Adams. 234 pages; 164 duo-toned b&w plates; 9.75 x 12 inches. Due to size and weight, international and expedited shipping will be more than quoted. Seller Inventory # 22916
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. B&W Photography. Lightly read if read at all. No markings in book. Binding is fine. Minor shelf wear to DJ edges. 164p[p. Seller Inventory # mon0000029678
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Oversized. Seller Inventory # M1933045019Z3