In this exquisitely produced book Robert Adams revisits the classic collection of nocturnal landscapes that he began making in the mid-1970s near his former home in Longmont, Colorado. Originally published by Aperture in 1985 as "Summer Nights", this new edition has been carefully re-edited and re-sequenced by the photographer, who has added thirty-nine previously unpublished images. Illuminated by moonlight and street lamp, the houses, roads, sidewalks, and fields in "Summer Nights, Walking" retain the wonder and stillness of the original edition, while adopting the artists intention of a dreamy fluidity, befitting his nighttime perambulations. The extraordinary care taken with the new reproductions also registers Adams attention to the subtleties of the night, and conveys his appeal to look again at places we might have dismissed as uninteresting. Adams observes, what attracted me to the subjects at a new hour was the discovery then of a neglected peace. By virtue of the subtlety and stillness that infuses this classic body of work, "Summer Nights, Walking" offers a reason to feel, once more, a regard for the quotidian American landscape.
- ISBN10 1597111171
- ISBN13 9781597111171
- Publish Date 1 November 2009
- Publish Status Temporarily Withdrawn
- Out of Print 21 November 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Aperture
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 84
- Language English