ROBERT ADAMS: EDEN: THE FIRST STEIDL EDITION - Rare Pristine Copy of The Steidl New And Enlarged First Hardcover Edition/First Printing - Signed by Robert Adams

Adams, Robert

ISBN 10: 3958296815 / ISBN 13: 9783958296817

Published by Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2023, 2023

About this Item

1st Printing. Signed. 48 pages. Published in 2023. Retrospective collection of landscape and place photographs. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. An austerely elegant production by Robert Adams, Gerhard Steidl, and Joshua Chuang: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial cloth boards with titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Robert Adams. Except for a brief Introductory Note by Adams, there is no text. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. In publisher's original slipcase. Without DJ, as issued. Re-presents, in its Revised, Expanded, and perhaps definitive format, Robert Adams' "Eden". Images of Eden, Colorado, named not after the Biblical place, but a former railroad official. The Garden of Mister Eden is made up of railroad tracks, gas tanks, metal sheds, military salvage lots, and the Westland Truck Stop. Captured in the blinding desert light, these are stark photographs that somehow implant themselves in one's memory. Robert Adams has published indispensable books about the radical (and irreversible) transformation of the American West for more than forty years (his work is the inspiration for Richard Avedon's "In The American West"). A MacArthur Genius Grant Laureate, one of very few photographers so honored, Adams is regarded by critics and admirers as the greatest American landscape and place photographer since Ansel Adams, with whom he shares the same surname, and nothing else. Indeed, Robert Adams is the ultimate anti-Ansel Adams photographer, an artist who evokes our inner desolation - and implicitly rejects Ansel's lush Romanticism - by exposing instead the detritus of modern civilization. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Adams collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in pencil on the cream-color Card (that is affixed to the title page) by Robert Adams. This title is a great art photography book. This is one of very few such pre-signed copies of the Steidl First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (2023) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Adams pre-signed a very limited number of copies through the publisher only. As such, these signed copies are instantly collectible and will increase in value, as ALL of Adams' signed books have. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with tonal plates. Robert Adams' "What We Bought: The New West" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT ADAMS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 3958296815.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ROBERT ADAMS: EDEN: THE FIRST STEIDL EDITION - Rare Pristine Copy of The Steidl New And Enlarged First Hardcover Edition/First Printing - Signed by Robert Adams
• Publisher: Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3958296815
• ISBN 13: 9783958296817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

In the fall of 1968, Robert Adams, a college English teacher, found himself inexplicably drawn to photograph a nondescript area south of Colorado Springs whose most notable feature was a truck stop off the interstate. Unflinching in their description yet embodying a mysteriously radiant peace, the pictures Adams made of the otherwise graceless site confirmed for him a vital new way of relating to the world. He would parlay this revelation into The New West, the book that would establish both his photographs and his subject―the contemporary landscape of the American frontier―as matters of wider consequence. This pivotal early series has been re-edited to include previously unpublished pictures from the period.

The subject of these pictures is not tract homes or freeways but the source of all Form, light … light of such richness that banality is impossible. Robert Adams, from The New West

About the Author

Robert Adams was born in 1937 in Orange, New Jersey. After earning a PhD in English literature and teaching the subject for several years at Colorado College, he became a photographer in the mid-1960s. Adams has published more than 40 books of photographs, with the changing landscape of the American West as his primary subject; his books with Steidl include Gone? (2009), The Place We Live (2013) and From the Missouri West (2018). Adams lives and works with his wife in northwest Oregon.