ROBERT ADAMS: SUMMER NIGHTS, WALKING: ALONG THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE 1976-1982 by Adams, Robert (Photographer); Blake, William & Dickinson, Emily (Contributions) - 2023

Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2023. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2023. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 84 pages. New And Enlarged Edition of the photographer's classic. One of the most beautiful and most influential art photography books of the 20th century and our time. The First Steidl Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. An austerely elegant production by Robert Adams, Katy Homans, and Joshua Chuang: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Robert Adams. Poems by William Blake and Emily Dickinson. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. In matching black DJ with metallic-silver titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Re-presents, in its Revised, Expanded, and perhaps definitive format, Robert Adams' "Summer Nights, Walking: Along The Colorado Front Range 1976-1982". Some of his most formally rigorous yet lyrically beautiful images. At the same time, Adams revised the original sequence (this would be its third iteration) in order to capture a more disquieting - and therefore, more accurate - representation of his actual experiences during all those nocturnal perambulations. "This sensitively enlarged edition, printed with the same exquisite care as the original, makes this revered body of work available to a new audience" (Gerhard Steidl). Identified with relentlessly harsh imagery of the detritus and decline of Western modern life, Robert Adams shows in "Summer Nights, Walking" that he has always had a more Romantic, even Blakean/mystical, and reverential relation to place. Adams is widely regarded as the greatest American photographer of landscape since Ansel Adams, with whom he shares the same surname, and nothing else. Indeed, Robert Adams is the prototypical anti-Ansel Adams landscape photographer, that is, a photographer whose lifelong commitment is the opposite of Whitman-esque majesty and grandeur. "Breathtaking" (Alec Soth). An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Adams collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in pencil on the cream-color Card (that is affixed to the half-title page) by Robert Adams. This title is a great art photography book. This is one of very few such pre-signed copies of the Steidl First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (2023) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Adams pre-signed a very limited number of copies through the publisher only. As such, these signed copies are instantly collectible and will increase in value, as ALL of Adams' signed books have. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with tonal plates. Robert Adams' "What We Bought: The New West" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT ADAMS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 395829684X.