Colorado Springs
Working in the tradition of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American photographers, from Carlton Watkins to Ansel Adams (no relation), Adams emerged in the 1970s as one of his generation's most important landscape photographers. He trained his camera on suburbs and small cities and their inter-relation with the natural environment of the West. In this photograph, the blinding mountain sunlight glares off a pair of cheap mobile homes, each pristine and boxy and awaiting future inhabitants. Like the wagons that housed journeying pioneers a century earlier, these homes represent the unique temporary architecture-often starkly at odds with the natural beauty of their surroundings-that characterizes the settlement of the West.
Artwork Details
- Title: Colorado Springs
- Artist: Robert Adams (American, born Orange, New Jersey, 1937)
- Date: 1969
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 14.4 x 15.1 cm (5 11/16 x 5 15/16 in. )
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift, 2001
- Object Number: 2001.85
- Rights and Reproduction: © Robert Adams
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
More Artwork
A slider containing 5 items.
Press the down key to skip to the last item.
Press the down key to skip to the last item.
Robert Adams
1977, printed 1983
Robert Adams
1976, printed 1979
Robert Adams
1968
Robert Adams
1968
Robert Adams
1968
Research Resources
The Met provides unparalleled resources for research and welcomes an international community of students and scholars. The Met's Open Access API is where creators and researchers can connect to the The Met collection. Open Access data and public domain images are available for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use without permission or fee.
To request images under copyright and other restrictions, please use this Image Request form.
Feedback
We continue to research and examine historical and cultural context for objects in The Met collection. If you have comments or questions about this object record, please complete and submit this form. The Museum looks forward to receiving your comments.