1970: Robert Adams

Pikes Peak Park, Colorado Springs, Colorado

In the late 1960s, Robert Adams, an inhabitant of the West, pioneered an alternative landscape tradition, which included man and his creations in the picture. "We have built these things and live among them,"his photographs seem to say, "and we need to take a good, hard look at them." [more...]

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The banal photograph seemed to have become an accepted style by this point, a reflexive reaction perhaps to the banal, atomized suburban lifestyles, living detached lives in detached homes.