Pascal Beausse, Head of the Photographic Collection, presents Santa Ana Wash by Robert Adams, a work acquired by the CNAP in 1989.
Made in 1982 in San Bernardino county, close to a military base, the image is an example of the ecological preoccupations of the photographer. Here this photograph revives the landscape genre and is an essential part of the history of American photography.
Born in 1937 in Orange (USA), Robert Adams grew up in Wisconsin and Colorado where he lived for thirty years before going to live in Oregon. In the mid-1960s he started to photograph the landscapes of the American West.
Robert Adams received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation award in 1973 and 1980, the MacArthur Foundation award in 1994 and he was the winner of the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in 2009. In 2014, there was an exhibition devoted to his work at the Jeu de Paume.
This work is registered in the inventory of the National Collection of Contemporary Art, that the CNAP has, as its mission, to enrich, preserve and disseminate.
Thanks to Pascal Beausse, head of the photographic collections, and to the teams of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques who have allowed this project to be carried out.Coordination: Communications and Information at CNAP
Translation: L’Œil de la Photographie.
Each week you can find the presentation of a piece from the photographic collection of CNAP http://www.cnap.fr and L’Oeil de la Photographie. Available in French and in English
