Longmont, Colorado

Alternate TitleSummer Nights #2

Artist Robert Adams (American, born 1937)

Date1979

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 14 1/2 × 14 1/2 inches (36.83 × 36.83 cm)
Sheet: 19 13/16 × 15 7/8 inches (50.32 × 40.32 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.4556

InscribedOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "5/30 / Summer Nights - #2"

Markingsnone

Edition/State/Proofed. 5/30

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DescriptionImage of an amusement park at night with the rides glowing against a dark cloud in the background.Gallery Label

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Robert Adams, who came to photography from a background in literature, has been the most passionate and committed landscape photographer of the last 30 years. Rejecting any simple faith in an idealized landscape, Adams creates quiet, bittersweet images that unite a sense of promise and loss, transcendence, and failure. His photographs prompt us to consider the contrast between myths and realities, and to think of the land as home rather than as scenic backdrop. Striking a balance between ideas of the timeless and transitory, this image was made at dusk, a moment not clearly day or night.

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