SUMMER NIGHTS, WALKING: ALONG THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE 1976-1982 by Adams, Robert (Photographer); Blake, William & Dickinson, Emily (Contributions) - 2009

New York City, NY: Aperture Foundation/Yale University Art Gallery, 2009. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: Aperture Foundation/Yale University Art Gallery, 2009. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 84 pages. New And Expanded Edition of the photographer's classic. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. Limited Slipcased Edition of 150 numbered and signed copies. Should not be confused with the regular trade edition that was published simultaneously with it. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Robert Adams, Katy Homans, and Joshua Chuang: Regular-sized volume format. Black cloth boards with gray metallic-silver titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Robert Adams. Poems by William Blake and Emily Dickinson. Matching black cloth slipcase. Printed in tritone on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Re-presents, in its Limited Edition format, Robert Adams' "Summer Nights, Walking". A completely new book, not just a reissue: Incorporates 39 previously unpublished images in this definitive sequence. First published in 1985, "Robert Adams revisits the classic collection of nocturnal landscapes. Illuminated by moonlight and streetlamp, the houses, roads, sidewalks, and fields retain their wonder and stillness while adopting the artist's intention of a dreamy fluidity, befitting his nighttime perambulations" (Aperture Foundation). Identified with unsparing images, Robert Adams reveals in "Summer Nights, Walking" that deep down, he has a lyrical, even Blakean/mystical, relation to both natural landscape and man-made place. A MacArthur Genius Grant Laureate, one of very few photographers so honored, Adams is regarded by critics and admirers as the greatest American landscape and place photographer since Ansel Adams, with whom he shares the same surname, and nothing else. Indeed, Robert Adams is the ultimate anti-Ansel Adams photographer, an artist who evokes our inner desolation - and explicitly rejects Ansel's lush Romanticism as false majesty - by exposing instead the detritus of modern civilization. Still, the images in "Summer Nights, Walking" approach and achieve a hard-won lyricism. "Along with the incredible printing, Adams has added tougher pictures to the mix. Breathtaking" (Alec Soth). An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Adams collectors. <B><i> This is a copy of the Limited Slipcased Edition of 150 numbered and signed copies, indicated/numbered as such on the Back Limitation Page. It is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully numbered and signed in black ink-pen by Robert Adams. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great art photography book. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Limited Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Should NOT be confused with the regular trade edition, which was published simultaneously with it. A rare signed copy thus. </b></i> 70 tritone 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 collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT ADAMS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1597111295.