Turning Back: A Photographic Journal of Re-Exploration is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The narrative begins at the Pacific Ocean and moves eastward through what was formerly one of the world's great rain forests. Photographs at the center of the book report on the forest's destruction. Elsewhere they trace a search for hope. Two hundred years ago, Lewis and Clark reported finding in the American Northwest a vast forest of ancient evergreens. In Turning Back Robert Adams ...
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Turning Back: A Photographic Journal of Re-Exploration is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The narrative begins at the Pacific Ocean and moves eastward through what was formerly one of the world's great rain forests. Photographs at the center of the book report on the forest's destruction. Elsewhere they trace a search for hope. Two hundred years ago, Lewis and Clark reported finding in the American Northwest a vast forest of ancient evergreens. In Turning Back Robert Adams looks again at the region's trees, discovering evidence both of America's failure and of a continuing promise. President Jefferson's primary charge to Lewis and Clark was to prepare the way for American commerce. Today, historians still speculate about why, upon his return, Lewis lapsed into depression and apparently committed suicide. "Going east," Adams suggests, "was more difficult than going west." So what is the future? Turning Back documents two kinds of predictive evidence. On the one hand we observe the results of greed so unrestrained that they are indistinguishable from those of nihilism. On the other we see what still lives, whether by our design or neglect, or Providence; in these 164 pictures the tone is celebratory, as in a prayer book. From coastal landscapes populated with tourists to timber clear-cutting and small family farms in eastern Oregon, here we reflect on what was lost, what is retained, and what we value both regionally and as a people with a common history.
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New in shrinkwrap. Natural cloth boards, BW-photographic dust jacket with orange and grey lettering. 164 pp. Mainly illustrations. "Published on the occasion of exhibitions at Haus der Kunst, Munich, June 29-September 25, 2005, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, September 29, 2005-January 3, 2006"
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Very Good jacket. First Edition. B&W Photography. Lightly read if read at all. No markings in book. Binding is fine. Minor shelf wear to DJ edges. 164p[p.
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New in Fine Condition jacket. Book 234 page 164 tritone photographs. First edition. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Haus der Kunst, Munich June 29-September 25, 2005 and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA September 29, 2005-January 3, 2006. Tan cloth with black stamped letters to the spine. Turning Back: A Photographic Journal of Re-Exploration is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Published by Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco CA and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York NY.
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