Robert Adams, 81, A Literary Scholar And Classics Editor.
Originally from Orange, New Jersey, Robert Adams came to photography in 1963 when earning a Ph.D in English at the University of Southern California. While teaching English at Colorado College in 1967, he photographed residential areas around Colorado Springs at the request of the organizers of a conference on the western landscape.
The Place We Live traces Adams’ deep engagement with the geography of the American West, weaving together various aspects of over four decades of work into a cohesive, epic narrative of the American experience. Taken as a whole, this publication elucidates the photographer’s civic goals: to consider the privilege of the place we were given and the obligations of citizenship.
Robert Adamson: poetry, reviews, essays - and fish. books Inside Out: An Autobiography. Text Publishing, Melbourne (2006) 000 pages, paperback, ISBN 0 000000 00 0. Originally published in hardback form in 2004, Inside Out will be released in paperback by Text Publishing in June 2006. Inside Out was awarded the New South Wales Premier’s History Award in 2004, and shortlisted for the.
John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer and conductor of classical music and opera, with strong roots in minimalism. Among over 60 major compositions are his breakthrough piece for string septet Shaker Loops (1978), his first significant large-scale orchestral work Harmonielehre (1985), the popular fanfare Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986), and On the.
Indeed, such specific and even famous photographs as Ansel Adams’s Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico (1944) are invoked by Robert Adams’s Fort Collins, Colorado (1976) some 30 years later in order to show us suburban habitation illuminated by that same moon—a parking lot that holds surrounding undeveloped land at bay while importing a small, cordoned bit of nature within itself for.
Robert Adam - Robert Adam - Furniture design: As a designer of furniture, too, Adam played a leading role and was prolific, turning his hand to everything from organ cases and sedan chairs to saltcellars and door fittings. The furniture style he evolved, popularized by the cabinetmaker George Hepplewhite, was always meant to harmonize with the rest of the home.
John Adams was a Founding Father, the first vice president of the United States and the second president. His son, John Quincy Adams, was the nation's sixth president.