Robert Adams: Tree Line: Hasselblad Award 2009 Hardcover – Illustrated, 22 March 2010

the images, as compositions, are both interesting and inspiring but the image quality is disappointing ... instead of black and white with degrees of gray for texture and detail, the images are monotonously and insipidly gray ... I was similarly disappointed with Adams' "West from the Columbia: Views at the River Mouth" which came from a different publisher ... perhaps the books as objects haven't aged well (I'm writing in 2018) ... "Tree Line" was published in 2010, "West from Columbia" was done in 1995. While I have immense admiration for Adams as a photographer and writer I don't believe these books properly document his artistic vision and achievements.

This is a wonderful book.The printing is perfect and the images have a clean quality about them.I feel there are a few key images in this book but it's very repetitive. I saw thisin another book by this artist.I still recommend this book!

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"Tree Line" is a simple, beautiful body of work, comprised entirely of photographs of the most ordinary of trees in the most ordinary of spaces. Some of the photographs are of scenes so plain that at first glance it seems that the picture has no subject, save the pure joy of sunlight falling on leaves in summer. But for Robert Adams, that is joy enough.What amazes me always about Robert Adams work is the memories it seems to evoke. I once (many years ago) rode my bike through this landscape, and still have memories (and a handful of photographs) of trees beside the roads surrounded by space and sky. My father also had a small orchard on his farm with a half dozen golden delicious apple trees, and I'd like to think that the apples from the tree at the end of this book taste like my memory of them. One of my favorite pictures (page 91) shows a wheelbarrow half full of apples, a fence with two cattle on the other side, expectantly waiting for their ration of culls.The photographs were all made in Eastern Oregon, a near desert landscape, open, spacious, with trees growing mostly in places with water, frequently from irrigation. For a photographer known mostly for his brutally honest pictures of the damage done to the western landscape by human overuse, these pictures document a landscape where the interactions between man and nature are much more positive.