Robert Adams: Manifest Destiny

Robert Adams has a very controversial point of view when it comes to taking pictures. Now, when I say that, I don't mean that they are bad, quite on the contrary. His pictures may all be black and white, but they always carry some sort of meaning or story. In some pictures that he takes, he even throws all the rules out the window.  For example most people would say not to use too much "negative space", or to "frame your images to be rid of distracting objects"(yaleherald.com). When he does that he has meaning for it though. In his forty years of photographic experiences, he has accumulated over 250 pictures that he placed in the "YUAG" gallery occupying two whole floors. I personally think, based off what I have seen of his photography, is that he tries to capture pictures that sometimes are subtle, mostly not, about how we have not taken our job seriously enough as far as taking care of our environment. He usually takes them in a series to show the history from past to present. What places used to look like, in between, and then more recently the things we've done to screw it up.