Along Some Rivers: Photographs and ConversationsRobert Adams, one of America's foremost living photographers, has spent decades considering and documenting the landscape of the American West and the ways it has been altered, disturbed, or destroyed by the hand of man. A professor of English before turning to photography, Adams is also a skilled writer and acute thinker on aesthetic questions. Aperture's previous bestselling collections of his essays, Beauty in Photography and Why People Photograph,

both private and public

this publication reveals the artist’s unique commitment to picturing life in America and

“I think of myself as a visual artist working in the medium of photography

seen from within

made from 1963 to 1967

” - Nick Waplington

For I Left My Grandmother’s House

Running throughout the images

Marion Belanger

got married

as a first point

footprints