Robert Adams
Robert Adams
American philosopher best known for his thoughts on metaphysics, religion, and morality.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 September 1937
CountryUnited States of America
photography art records
Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.
photography silence compelling
Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.
photography space littles
Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of patience - wonderful. They restore to us knowledge of a place we seek but lose in the rush of our search. Though to enjoy even the pictures, much less the space itself, requires that we be still longer than is our custom.
photography firsts photographer
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.
photography art discovery
. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.
photography running mistake
Nature photography... that acknowledges what is wrong, is admittedly sometimes hard to bear - it has to encompass our mistakes. Yet in the long run, it is important; in order to endure our age of apocalypse, we have to be reconciled not only to avalanche and hurricane, but to ourselves.
photography invention instance
Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.
inspirational good-night photography
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
photography faithful records
...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest pictures would then... find wholeness in the torn world.
country photography law
In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear and ask what you are doing and that you can't answer, and you haven't many references, and you don't know the law. Neither is it easy to find and know the subjects for portraits or comfortable to make such picture when you cannot apply an anesthesia of small talk.
photography thinking artist
Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them the most fully truthful expression of their vision... as Robert Frost told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant, 'You want me to say it worse?'
photography reality views
... If we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his camera by mule, and the person stepping for a moment from his car to take a picture with his Instamatic, it becomes clear how some of our space has vanished; if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space 'in no time' is to have denied its reality.
photography thinking landscape
We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.
photography art landscape
There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind the camera as about what is in front of it.