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Author Adams, Robert, 1937- photographer

Title Listening to the river : seasons in the American West / photographs by Robert Adams ; poems by William Stafford
Edition First edition
Published [New York] : Aperture, [1994]
©1994
©1994

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 W'BOOL  779.360978 Ada/Ltt  AVAILABLE
Description 112 pages : illustrations ; 26 x 33 cm
Contents Happy in sunlight -- The saint of thought -- Things about the sun -- A gift for kit -- Next time -- Roll call -- Ask me -- At Missoula -- Crossing the campus with a new generation -- Cottonwood -- Dawn on the Warm Springs Reservation -- Looking for gold
Summary Listening to the River is a celebration of anonymous places where we can still find nature's beauty. Robert Adams first visited these particular locations as a boy, when the West seemed unchanging. Now in his fifties, he returns to them with the affection of a longtime acquaintance. The book records hushed walks when irrelevancies are forgotten, when sunlight makes the fields, hills, and roads new. Adams has chosen twelve poems by William Stafford to accompany the pictures. Both photographer and poet observe a practice of quiet in the out-of-doors, and both discover there a promise. This is an optimistic book, though not a sentimental one: a number of the photographs record views of the suburban West. "Any tree in the path of development appears to have an uncertain future," Adams observes. Listening to the River affirms, however, that trees and other elements of nature are ultimately protected. "Part of what their beauty means," says the photographer, "is that they are safe."
Subject Adams, Robert, 1937-
Landscape photography -- Colorado.
SUBJECT Colorado -- Pictorial works. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114741
Genre/Form Illustrated works.
Author Stafford, William, 1914-1993, writer of added text
LC no. 93073447
ISBN 0893815659
9780893815653