Artist's arttributes:
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Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 92 |
| United Kingdom | 21 |
| Germany | 18 |
| Canada | 6 |
| France | 6 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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Fraenkel Gallery, USA |
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MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, USA |
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Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, USA |
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Biography: 
8.5.1937 Born in Orange, NJ (US)
Awards 2006 Deutsche Borse Photography Prize
2009 Hasselblad Award
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 163  from 1.10.
from 31.5.
until 13.10.
until 16.6.
until 20.5.
Solo shows 44
2012
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| Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs - Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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| Robert Adams: The Place We Live - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA |
2011
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| Robert Adams - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs - Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO |
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| The Unworthiness of Our Response: Photographs by Robert Adams - Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, NV |
2010
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| Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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| Gone? Colorado in the 1980s - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Summer Nights, Walking - Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY |
2009
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| Robert Adams - 2009 Hasselblad Award Winner - Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg |
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| Robert Adams - Seascapes - Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne |
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| Robert Adams : Our lives and our children - Gimpel Fils, London (England) |
2007
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| Robert Adams: Questions for an Overcast Day - Matthew Marks Gallery - 521 West 22th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Adams: Questions for an Overcast Day - Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Adams - The New West - SAGE Paris, Paris |
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| Robert Adams - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Robert Adams - Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration - Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT |
2006
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| Robert Adams - The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin |
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| Robert Adams: Turning Back - Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
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| Robert Adams - Landscapes of Harmony and Dissonance - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Robert Adams - Turning Back - Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Adams - Turning Back - Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Robert Adams - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| Robert Adams - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Robert Adams - Turning Back - Landschaftsfotografien - Haus der Kunst München, Munich |
2004
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| The paradise [14] Robert Adams - The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin |
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| Robert Adams - The New West - Quadrat Bottrop - Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop |
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| Robert Adams - From the Missouri West - Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ |
2003
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| Robert Adams - No Small Journeys, Across Shopping Center Parking Lots, Down City - Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Adams: Commercial/Residential: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range, 1968-1972 - Andrew Roth Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Adams - Summer Nights - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Robert Adams - A Retrospective - Gimpel Fils, London (England) |
2001
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| Robert Adams - True West - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX |
2000
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| Robert Adams - California - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
1999
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| Pure Products of America - Photographs 1968-1978 by Robert Adams - Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY |
1997
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| Robert Adams - Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels |
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| Robert Adams : Our lives and our children - Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne |
1995
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| Robert Adams - What we bought: the new world - Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover |
1990
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| Robert Adams: To Make It Home: Photographs of the American West - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX |
1989
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| To Make It Home: Living in the American West: Photographs by Robert Adams - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Robert Adams: To Make It Home: Photographs of the American West, 1965-1986 - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
1987
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| Robert Adams: Summer Nights - Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO |
1981
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| The New West: Photographs by Robert Adams - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
1979
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| Prairie: Photographs by Robert Adams - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1976
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| Robert Adams - Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, NY |
Group shows 114
2013
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| Prix Pictet - Power - Gallery of Photography, Dublin |
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| Landmark: the Fields of Photography - Somerset House, London (England) |
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| Prix Pictet Power - Istanbul Modern, Istanbul |
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| The Unphotographable - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2012
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| Howard Greenberg, Collection - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
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| Great Photographs: Scape - Hasted Kraeutler, New York City, NY |
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| St Ives Exhibition 2012 - Belgrave Gallery St Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
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| Number Three. From home to the factory. Works from the Centre national des arts plastiques, France - La Virreina - Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona |
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| 20th Century British Art, Spring 2012 - Paisnel Gallery, London (England) |
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| James Tower and Contemporary Ceramic Art and Robert Adams Late Bronzes - Gimpel Fils, London (England) |
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| True Stories - Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| True Stories - Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
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| Der Mensch und seine Objekte - Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen |
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| Robert Adams, Robert Bechtle and Ewan Gibbs - Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (England) |
2011
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| Civic Virtue: - Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles, CA |
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| New Topographics - Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao |
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| Seismic Shift - Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal and California Landscape Photography, 1944-1984 - UCR / California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA |
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| The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment - Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, NV |
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| In Focus: The Sky - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Hail Traveler! - Rick Wester Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| New Topographics - Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam |
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| Great Photographs of the 20th Century: From the Street - Hasted Kraeutler, New York City, NY |
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| Night Vision: Photography After Dark / The Howard Gilman Gallery, 2nd floor - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| NEW TOPOGRAPHICS- Robert Adams • Lewis Baltz • Bernd and Hilla Becher • Joe Deal • Frank Gohlke • Nicholas Nixon • John - Preus Museum, Horten |
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| Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment - New Mexico Museum Arts, Santa Fe, NM |
2010
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| New Topographics - Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz |
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| Edge Of Town - Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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| Developed and Undeveloped: Photographic Landscapes - The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA |
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| New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| America Deserta - Centre d'Art du Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux |
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| On the Road - Artpace - San Antonio, San Antonio, TX |
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| Furthermore: 30th Anniversary Exhibition - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2009
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| Public Domain Variations on the Landscape - Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 1969 - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Stadt, Land, Fluss. Fotografien aus den Sammlungen des Sprengel Museum Hannover - Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover |
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| Remember? Photographs before Digitization - Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY |
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| Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
2008
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| Oceans, Rivers, and Skies: Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, and Alfred Stieglitz - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| READING ROOM - PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR |
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| Images Du Corps, Vertiges Et Vestiges - Musée Régional D'Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan |
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| Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape - Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA |
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| Natura Viva - Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Frank Gohlke - Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, NY |
2007
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| DIE ELBE [in] between - Wasser, Ströme, Zeiten - Kunstmuseum Kloster unserer lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Magdeburg |
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| Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century - Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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| Highlights from the Photography Collection - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
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| Modern British Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection 1913-1966 - Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art - MIMA, Middlesbrough (England) |
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| Landscapes of Colorado - Center for Visual Art (CVA) - Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO |
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| SECOND VIEW– Amerikanische Fotografie - Kunstmuseum Kloster unserer lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Magdeburg |
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| On the Wall - Aperture Gallery, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Twilight. Photography in the Magic Hour - Victoria & Albert Museum - V&A, London (England) |
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| Ecotopia - The Second ICP Triennial of Photographie and Video - The ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, New York City, NY |
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| 60th Anniversary Show - Gimpel Fils, London (England) |
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| UBS Openings - Photography from the UBS Collection - Tate Modern, London (England) |
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| Summer Vacation - Photographs from the Collection - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Tiefenschärfe - Bilder vom Menschen - Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden |
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| Photography: Robert Adams, Inaki Bonillas, Louise Lawler - Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels |
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| Print: Modern British,International and Contemporary - Osborne Samuel, London (England) |
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| Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2006 - The Photographers' Gallery, London (England) |
2005
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| 20th CENTURY BRITISH ART - Osborne Samuel, London (England) |
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| Aspects of Modern British Art - Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England) |
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| Bilanz in zwei Akten - Sammlung Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung - Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover |
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| Nine Abstract Artists - Osborne Samuel, London (England) |
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| La Photographie á l'Épreuve - IAC - Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne |
2004
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| Super Hits of the '70s - Photographs from the Collection - Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
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| Wide Open Spaces - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| 101 Ways to Remove a President From Power - CoCA - Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA |
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| Adams and 21 Eves: Women Photographers From the Vault - UAM - University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA |
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| Citigroup Photography Prize 2004 - Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf |
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| Glorious Harvest - photographs from the Michael E. Hoffman Tribute Collection - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
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| The Alteres Landscape - Presentation House Gallery - PHG, North Vancouver, BC |
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| Twentieth Century British Art - In association with Scolar Fine Art - Osborne Samuel, London (England) |
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| Citigroup Photography Prize - The Photographers' Gallery, London (England) |
2003
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| JEDE FOTOGRAFIE EIN BILD. SIEMENS FOTOSAMMLUNG - Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
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| 125 Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York - The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow |
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| Enchanted Evening - Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| cruel and tender: the real in the twentieth-century phtograph - Tate Modern, London (England) |
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| Unreal Estate Opportunities - PKM GALLERY| Bartleby Bickle & Meursault - Seoul, Seoul |
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| Affinities... Now and Then - H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO |
2002
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| Landschaft - Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven |
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| Regarding Landscape - mocca - Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON |
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| Visions from America - Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940 - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Adams - What We Bought, The New World and Lewis Baltz - Park City - Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
2001
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| Great Britain - The 1960s - Joseph Rickards Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Photography and Perception: Exploring the Western Landscape - Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT |
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| Nature in Photographie - Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna |
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| Settings and Players - Theatrical ambiguity in American photography - White Cube - Hoxton Square, London (England) |
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| Reinventing the West: - Photographs by Ansel Adams and Robert Adams - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
2000
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| Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts Benefit Exhibition - Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY |
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| No Absolutes - Contemporary Art from the Region - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ |
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| How you look at it - Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover |
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| The West Since Yesterday - Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO |
1999
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| Sea Change - The Seascape in Contemporary Photography - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| Carved, Modeled, Assembled, Welded, Drawn - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
1998
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| New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1997
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| American Photography: Recent Acquisitions - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1996
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| Paysages photographiques - Abbaye St André - Centre d'art contemporain Meymac, Meymac |
1990
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| Myth of the West - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| The Indomitable Spirit: Photographers And Artists Respond In The Time Of Aids - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1989
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| Un'altra obiettivitá - Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, PO |
1984
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| Three Americans - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1982
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| Paintings from the National Watercolor Society - Missoula Art Museum MAM, Missoula, MT |
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| Les choix de l'œil : la photographie depuis 1940 - Musee du Bas-Saint-Laurent, Rivière-du-Loup, QC |
1981
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| Les choix de l'œil : la photographie depuis 1940 - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| American Landscapes - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1980
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| American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1978
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| The Great West: Real/Ideal - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1971
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| Photographs: Robert Adams and Emmitt Gowin - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1964
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| documenta 3 - Documenta, Kassel |
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Belgium
| | Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels
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United Kingdom
| | Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England)
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| | Gimpel Fils, London (England)
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| | Scolar Fine Art, London (England)
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| | New Art Centre, Salisbury (England)
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USA
| | Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY
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| | Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY
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Canada
| | National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON
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France
| | 49 NORD 6 EST – Frac Lorraine, Metz
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| | FRAC - Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
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| | IAC - Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne
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Germany
| | Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
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Israel
| | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Macedonia
| | Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Skopje
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Spain
United Kingdom
| | Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (England)
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USA
| | MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
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| | ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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| | Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, NV
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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