Time Passes

A study of the shore, sea, and light in the American Northwest by a major figure in contemporary photography.

Robert Adams reveals the beauty of the American landscape, exploring lost paradises and areas threatened with destruction. Time Passes is a meditation on transience and on the promise inherent in beauty. The pictures were made near Adams's home in the American Northwest, a region once famous for its vast woodlands but now infamous for the ravages of industrial forestry. In the book the photographer turns away from environmental catastrophe in order to study the shore and sea and light. 32 tritone illustrations.

Robert Adams (b. 1937) was briefly a college literature teacher. Since then he has worked as a photographer and writer, focusing on the changing landscape of the western United States. He has published more than twenty-five books, and his pictures are in art museums around the world. In 2006 he was awarded the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize.