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# Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

**Brand:** robert adams
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- **What is this?** Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews by robert adams
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## Customer Reviews

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    Excellent essays by different photographers. Ed by Robert Adams
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 2 October 2022*

I enjoyed reading about what other photographers think about their work and ethos. Very interesting.book.

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    A marvelous thoughtful wise book
  

*by B***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 19 March 2014*

This is a marvelous, thoughtful, sensitive, wise book, like so much of Robert Adams's writing on photography - and indeed much of it applies to art more generally. Roughly a third is made up of essays on particular topics (e.g. writing, teaching, humor in relation to photography), a third of essays on nine different photographers, and a third on the nature of, and photography in, the West. His intuitions enhance our understanding of what photographs, and art more generally, do, and why we photograph. His perceptions benefit from his wide reading - before quitting to photograph, Adams taught English.As in other of Adams's writings, there is an undercurrent that the real use of art is to affirm meaning, and thus "to keep intact an affection for life". It is possible that those whose approach to photography is very largely conceptual will find this book less stimulating than I did.

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    Curate's egg of a book
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 6 December 2015*

A thoughtful and thought provoking little book with not very well printed illustrations. I found the first section engrossing. The second, which is made up of reviews by the author and previously published, interesting and informative and the last section on the changes in the American West frankly irrelevant unless you live in the US. Worth a read and a place on the shelf.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Robert Adams: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews
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*Last updated: 2026-01-23*