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Exhibition Detail Robert Adams The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs Curated by: Joshua Chuang, Jock Reynolds LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90036 March 11th, 2012 - June 3rd, 2012 Opening: March 11th, 2012 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
	Robert Adams, Edge of San Timoteo Canyon, looking toward Los Angeles, Redlands, California, 1978 , gelatin silver print, 12 ½ x 15 3/8 in. © Yale University Art Gallery, Purchased with a gift from Saundra B. Lane, a grant from the Trellis Fund, and the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund

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Since taking up photography in the mid-1960s as a response to the rapidly changing landscape of his native Colorado, Robert Adams has been widely regarded as one of the leading chroniclers of the American West. Edited and sequenced by Adams himself, The Place We Livesurveys all of the photographer's major projects and monographs from an enormously influential career spanning four decades.

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Exhibition and publications organized by Joshua Chuang, Assistant Curator of Photographs, and Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director, both of the Yale University Art Gallery. Made possible by Yale alumni and friends: Helen Buchanan; Allan K. Chasanoff; Lara Rubin Constable and the Reed Foundation; Nathaniel W. Gibbons; Betsy and Frank Karel; Saundra B. Lane; Melanie and Rick Mayer and the MFUNd; Mr. and Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan; Ms. Eliot Nolen and Mr. Timothy P. Bradley; Risher Randall, Sr.; the Shamos Family Foundation; Mary Jo and Ted P. Shen; Jane P. Watkins; the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund; and an endowment created with a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The acquisition of Robert Adams’s master prints was made possible through a gift from Saundra B. Lane, a grant from the Trellis Fund, and the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund.

The Los Angeles presentation was made possible in part by LACMA’s Wallis Annenberg Director’s Endowment Fund.

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