Along Some Rivers. Photographs and conversations

Robert Adams, one of America´s foremost living photographers, has spent decades considering and documenting the landscape of the American West and the ways it has been altered, disturbed, or destroyed by the hand of man. A professor of English before turning to photography, Adams is also a skilled writer and acute thinker on aesthetic questions. Aperture´s previous bestselling collections of his essays, "Beauty in Photography" and "Why People Photograph, " assembled his thoughts on a range of subjects, including writing, teaching, photography´s place in the arts and a host of fellow photographers. "Along Some Rivers" collects Adams´s correspondence and conversations--some of which have never been published before--with writers and curators including William McEwan, Constance Sullivan and Thomas Weski. In so doing, it provides another point of entry, offering a portrait of the artist in debate and elucidating his thoughts on a number of his now legendary projects, including "Cottonwoods" and "What We Bought." Adams also expounds on why, in his view, Marcel Duchamp has not been a helpful guide for art, and he discusses which filmmakers and painters have influenced him, which cameras he prefers and how he approaches printing his pictures. "Along Some Rivers" also includes a selection of 28 unpublished landscapes.