{"product_id":"robert-adams-why-people-photograph-selected-essays-and-reviews","title":"Robert Adams: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height:280px\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eA now classic text on the art, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhy People Photograph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e gathers a selection of essays by the great master photographer Robert Adams, tackling such diverse subjects as collectors, humor, teaching, money and dogs. Adams also writes brilliantly on Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Laura Gilpin, Judith Joy Ross, Susan Meiselas, Michael Schmidt, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Eugène Atget. The book closes with two essays on \"working conditions\" in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West, and the essay \"Two Landscapes.\" Adams writes: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-quote\"\u003eAt our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 0; display: none;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50278343999773,"sku":"9780893816032","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780893816032.jpg?v=1755707979","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/robert-adams-why-people-photograph-selected-essays-and-reviews","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}