Colorado Springs
Robert Adams American
Not on view
Working in the tradition of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American photographers, from Carlton Watkins to Ansel Adams (no relation), Adams emerged in the 1970s as one of his generation's most important landscape photographers. He trained his camera on suburbs and small cities and their inter-relation with the natural environment of the West. In this photograph, the blinding mountain sunlight glares off a pair of cheap mobile homes, each pristine and boxy and awaiting future inhabitants. Like the wagons that housed journeying pioneers a century earlier, these homes represent the unique temporary architecture-often starkly at odds with the natural beauty of their surroundings-that characterizes the settlement of the West.
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