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“History does not unfold: it piles up.”

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Robert Adams, born on May 8, 1937, is an American photographer known for his profound depiction of the urban and rural landscapes of the American Midwest. His work focuses on the impact of human activity on the natural environment. more

“There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you've got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine.”

Knows Way Mind Helping Care Know How Greater Imagine Ego Currents Take Care Surrender Within You

Author:Robert Adams

“The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily.”

Way Facts Hurt Simple Silence Letting Go Concepts Dogma Good And Bad Sorting Sorting Out

Author:Robert Adams

“Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning.”

Thinking May Helping Beautiful Form Suffering Worst Chaos Photographer Suspicion Worst Fear

Author:Robert Adams

“Whatever power there is in the urban pictures is bound to the closeness with which they skirt banality. For a shot to be good — suggestive of more than just what it is — it has to come perilously near being bad, just a view of stuff.”

Stuff Views Shots Bounds Be Good Urban Skirts Closeness Banality Being Bad

Author:Robert Adams

“Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it. A photographer down on his or her knees picturing a dog has found pleasure enough to make many things possible.”

Way Art Enough Artist Found Pleasure Dog Depends Photographer Affection Creator Knees

Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

“The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.”

Photographer Tension

Author:Robert Adams

“I want to let you in on a little secret. There are no problems. There are no problems. There never were any problems, there are no problems today, and there will never be any problems. Problems just mean that the world isn't turning the way you want it to. But in truth, there are no problems. Everything is unfolding as it should. Everything is right. You have to forget about yourself and expand your consciousness until you become the whole universe. The Reality in back of the universe is Pure Awareness. It has no problems. And you are That.”

“We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.”

Way Teach Students Photography Photographer

Author:Minor White

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