A now classic text on the art, Why People Photograph gathers a selection of Essays by the great master photographer Robert Adams, tackling such diverse subjects as collectors, humor, teaching, money and dogs.
The book closes with two Essays on "working conditions" in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West,.
Adams also writes brilliantly on Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Laura Gilpin, Judith Joy Ross, Susan Meiselas, Michael Schmidt, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Eugene Atget.
A now classic text on the art, Why People Photograph gathers a selection of Essays by the great master photographer Robert Adams, tackling such diverse subjects as collectors, humor, teaching, money and dogs