Robert Adams

Robert Adams is a photographer most known for being part of the photographic movement, the New Topography.

Adams was born in 1937 in a highly industrialized town of Orange, New Jersey before relocating to Colorado when he first started out as a professional photographer. In the American west, he became interested in capturing how the infamous American landscape, once captured by the likes of Timothy O'Sullivan and William Henry Jackson, had been shaped by human influence. As part of the New Topographics in the 1970s, Adams approach to photographing these landscapes was to be completely neutral, lacking any form of emotion or judgement on the subject matter. His images are titled as documents to maintain a neutral position.

Famous Photographs

• East from Flagstaff Mountain, 1976.