Go ahead and put a pin in whatever it is you’re doing right now. Now, get yourself over to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and spend some quality time looking at the extensive retrospective exhibition of Robert Adams’s photography. Seeing sixty years of work together in one show was a remarkable experience, and is not something that can be captured in a book (although there is one available). Go calibrate your eyes and sensibilities. There is much to learn about the medium of photography, Adams’s changing approach, all of it. Worth your time, and you’ll thank yourself later.
