Skogen

It's a good book of Robert Adams I've longed before! Thanks to the bookstore and Amazon!

I purchased this special for visiting Skogens from Norway. They loved the picture book and passed it around.

I would say this book shouldn't be your first by this photographer. Get some of his more well known work and get this to complete your collection if you're really into him.

Maybe this review will only show my ignorance but I thought these photos were flat, lacked sharpness and plain boring. I've enjoyed Mr. Adams other books but this one just didn't do it for me.

As someone who has savored Robert Adams photographs for several decades, Skogen is a delight--simple pictures made in fragments of woodlands near his home. Opening the book is like entering a forest--one can almost feel the temperature drop, the noise disappear, and the cares of the world ease. The woodlands do not appear to be old growth stands or clear-cuts, mostly they seem to be the product more of benign neglect rather than any human intention. After the savaging of the forests that Adams documented in "Looking Back", this book feels like a relief--evidence that the forests we have are still worthy of our attention.Ansel Adams made pictures of grand landscapes that encouraged generations of tourists to leave their homes in the cities to travel to see "the wilderness". Robert Adams pictures encourage a different kind of journey--by showing us the beauty in common places, he encourages us to find simple places near where we live, where we, too, can find the silence and the solace we need.Skogen is a beautiful physical object--thick hardbound covers, lovely tritone printing--a perfect book. The book contains 46 plates, mostly one to a spread, and is about 11x11 inches--it feels (and is) a substantial book.

unglaublich gute fotografien, ein sehr eigener sozial-romantischer blick auf die natur, insbesondere den wald. robert adams erfindet sich immer wieder neu und sogar in großartiger manier.

I purchased this book purely on the beauty of the cover, but then came deflation. Adams early work was electrifying, its engagement with reality and the real was wonderful and a filament away from the surreal or hyper real. It pulled me up short that someone could look at the everyday with such conviction and visceral clarity.Now we have yet another bad late Adams effort. Muddy badly printed images banishing the light. Lazy compositions badly conceived. Ill consideration of drop focus (if considered at all)Does he think so highly of himself he can walk through any environment go click click and his muse will automatically rise and take care of his aesthetic?.He appears to be resting on his laurels, someone at Yale needs a slap for publishing this rubbish when they could have given a leg up to a young struggling talent. Adams needs a slap for being smug and lazy. I would estimate approximately one in every twenty images almost engages me emotionally and viscerally, but the rest of the images suck any life there is right out of the book.Poor photography, no conviction zero energy, zero passion.PS the Amazon review below might be more accurate if someone would print these muddy pictures properly and let in some light.