untitled, Robert Adams

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Robert Adams, untitled
Robert Adams, untitled
Robert Adams
untitled
1979
Robert Adams
born 1937
untitled, 1979
Portfolio/Series title: Summer Nights
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 12.7 x 12.7 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 5 x 5 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in
Credit line: Museum purchase
Accession number: 1998.0017
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Art for Kansas: Building the Collection, 1988-1998 (Recent Acquisitions)," Nov-1998, John Pultz and Susan Earle When John Szarkowski, director emeritus of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, was Murphy Lecturer in Art History at the University of Kansas in 1994, he recommended that the Spencer acquire Adams's photographs quickly, while they were available Adams reacted to the chemicals used in photography in ways that made darkroom work a health threat. In 1994, he won a MacArthur Fellowship that would support him amply for five years. Szarkowski and others speculated that, freed from financial necessity, Adams would abandon the darkroom, and his prints' subtle tones - as seen in this print from his Summer's Night series - would never by recreated.