Tree line - Robert Adams (The Hasselblad Award 2009)

Beauty in Photography by Robert Adams. Written with grace and power, the eight essays in Beauty in Photography provide a deep critical appreciation of photography by one of its foremost proponents.

Questions for an Overcast Day is a series of 33 photographs of young alder trees growing along the Oregon coastline near the artist's home.

Robert Adams, one of America’s foremost living photographers, has spent years documenting the landscape of the American West. A professor of English before turning to photography, Adams is also a skilled writer and acute thinker on aesthetic questions.

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.

"Turning Back: A Photographic Journal of Re-Exploration" is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which reported finding a vast forest of ancient evergreens in the American Northwest.

Why People Photograph is a book by a professional photographer about the relationship of art and life.