Robert Adams (photographer) Quote

The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If pictures cannot be understood without knowing details of the artist's private life, then that is a reason for faulting them; major art, by definition, can stand independent of its maker.


Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values (ed. 1989)


The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If...

The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If...

The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If...

The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If...