A Remembrance of Places Both Empty and Full
Megan Craig | The American Scholar | 23rd June 2022
Adams’ images convey a silence, an objectivity. This “isn’t a lack of emotion” says one critic, but “a kind of etiquette. The polite thing to do”. He is regarded as a seminal figure in contemporary photography and, as the linked piece, shows, his quiet images can create a strong emotional response. “The human drive to create order … feels like a losing game. The little church in Ramah … is trying so hard to stand steadily there in its place, even as [it shows] vulnerability to weather, to age, to time.”