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Joshua Chuang and Robert Adams: Boats, Books, Birds
Boats, Books, Birds
ISBN: 9783958296619
(HB - EN)
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In the summer and fall of 2017, the photographer Robert Adams invited Joshua Chuang, his frequent collaborator, to document the objects that Adams has made over the years for his own consolation and pleasure. The resulting color picturesùof half-model ships and boats, a miscellany of open books and cherished species of birds, all formed by hand from woodùhave been brought together with views from the home Adams shares with his wife Kerstin to reveal a little-known aspect of his search for coherence in a fractured world.
Strange to have come through the whole [twentieth] century and find that the most interesting thing is the birds. John Hay
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
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