Robert Adams is a photographer who was influential in the movement New Topographics. New Topographics addressed the ideas of post industrial human altered land. In many ways it was an early environmental movement and Adams was an environmentalist. Finding the interesting in the visually bland was an objective of the work. Neutral yet objective approaches to the subject matter was a conflict in Adams work. He was a steward in the ideas of rejuvenating land that has been altered and polluted by humans yet wanted to be a neutral documentor of landscapes. in the words of John Szarkowski, Adams... "has, without actually lying, discovered in these dumb and artless agglomerations of boring buildings the suggestion of redeeming virtue." Craftsmanship and conservation are strong ideas attached to the work of Adams and should be investigated in today's art to see if we have kept the torch burning.
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