ADAMS, Robert. The New West. Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range. The Colorado Associated University Press, 1974. Oblong 4° (252 x 230 mm). 56 black and white photographs. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in black, original white photo-illustrated dust jacket (a short creased tear, light soiling on jacket and cloth). Provenance: Suzanne Richie (signature on front paste-down, dated MoMA, January 1975).
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ADAMS, Robert. The New West. Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range. The Colorado Associated University Press, 1974. Oblong 4° (252 x 230 mm). 56 black and white photographs. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in black, original white photo-illustrated dust jacket (a short creased tear, light soiling on jacket and cloth). Provenance: Suzanne Richie (signature on front paste-down, dated MoMA, January 1975).

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ADAMS, Robert. The New West. Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range. The Colorado Associated University Press, 1974. Oblong 4° (252 x 230 mm). 56 black and white photographs. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in black, original white photo-illustrated dust jacket (a short creased tear, light soiling on jacket and cloth). Provenance: Suzanne Richie (signature on front paste-down, dated MoMA, January 1975).

FIRST EDITION of this important study of the contradictions of suburban life, the tension between natural and man-made landscapes, and the form-giving qualities of light. William Jenkins organized his influential New Topographics exhibition the year following publication of this book. 101 Books, pp.226-27; Auer, p.575; The Photobook, vol. 2, p.25.