AMERICAN SILENCE – THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ROBERT ADAMS
2022-08-29This exhibition explores the reverential way he looks at the world around him and the almost palpable silence of his work.
Many of these photographs of the American West capture the sense of peace and harmony that the beauty of nature can instill in us—“the silence of light,” as he calls it, that he sees on the prairie, in the woods, and by the ocean. Other pictures question our silent complicity in the desecration of that beauty by consumerism, industrialization, and lack of environmental stewardship. Divided into three sections—The Gift, Our Response, and Tenancy—the exhibition features some 175 works from the artist’s most important projects and includes pictures of suburban sprawl, strip malls, highways, homes, and stores, as well as rivers, skies, the prairie, and the ocean.
Opposite – Kerstin enjoying the wind, East of Keota, Colorado, 1969
Exhibition runs through to October 2nd, 2022
National Gallery of Art
4th and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington
DC 20565
