Robert Adams

Robert Adams

Summer Nights, Walking

Interview with Joshua Chuang

Aperture, Winter 2009, issue 197

Adams shot this series in the summer of 1979. I remember this summer. A year later in the summer of 1980 the Phillies won their first world series. Anyway, The sense of place and time struck me in this group of photographs. Sometimes I can look at a picture and be transported back to a certain time and space. These pictures are so silent and still, yet they so powerfully move me, in a gentle way, into my past.