GALLERY EDITORS' NOTE

摘要

In this issue's Gallery essay, Thomas Andrews interprets three images of the Denver metropolitan region taken by American photographer Robert Adams during the bicentennial celebration of 1976. Unlike the famous photographs of another Adams, Ansel, Robert Adams's images portray more than wild, monumental nature by also including visual evidence of suburban culture's growth across the western landscape. The result, argues Andrews, are not photographs that simply lament our destruction of nature; Adams's images also illustrate, without sentimentalizing, the ironic beauty in this postwar historical process. In doing so, concludes Andrews, Robert Adams's work encourages environmental historians to place humans squarely within their stories about nature.