The University of Arizona

Robert Adams, Turning Back: A Photographic Journal
of Re-exploration
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Robert Adams. Pacific County, Washington [Looking west toward Cape Disappointment at the mouth of the Columbia River. Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery first reached the Pacific there in 1805.]. All photographs, from a series dating 1999–2003, are gelatin silver prints lent by anonymous private collectors, Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.”

Robert Adams. Lewis and Clark Walked Here on Clatsop Beach, South of the Columbia River Mouth in Oregon. All photographs, from a series dating 1999–2003, are gelatin silver prints lent by anonymous private collectors, Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Robert Adams. Looking East Up the Columbia River from the Logged-Off Interior of Cape Disappointment on the Pacific Coast. All photographs, from a series dating 1999–2003, are gelatin silver prints lent by anonymous private collectors, Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Robert Adams. Pioneer Cemetery, Bandon, Oregon [A metal grave marker cast in the shape of a stump identifies “John M. Conrad, 1867-1905” as a member of the fraternal order of “Woodmen of the World.” Quantities of first-growth lumber were shipped through this small port on the Coquille River.]. All photographs, from a series dating 1999–2003, are gelatin silver prints lent by anonymous private collectors, Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.Robert Adams. Ecola State Park, Clatsop County, Orego. All photographs, from a series dating 1999–2003, are gelatin silver prints lent by anonymous private collectors, Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.Robert Adams. Sitka Spruce, Cape Blanco State Park, Curry County, Oregon. All photographs, from a series dating 1999–2003, are gelatin silver prints lent by anonymous private collectors, Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Robert Adams.Sitka Spruce, Cape Blanco State Park, Curry County, Oregon. All photographs, from a series dating 1999–2003, are gelatin silver prints lent by anonymous private collectors, Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.Robert Adams. At the Edge of a Clearcut, Warrenton, Clatsop County, Oregon. All photographs, from a series dating 1999–2003, are gelatin silver prints lent by anonymous private collectors, Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.Robert Adams. Clearcut, Clatsop County, Oregon. All photographs, from a series dating 1999–2003, are gelatin silver prints lent by anonymous private collectors, Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.”
 
Robert Adams. Stacking the De-Limbed Trunks of an Immature “Harvest,” Columbia County, Oregon. All photographs, from a series dating 1999–2003, are gelatin silver prints lent by anonymous private collectors, Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.Robert Adams. Waste in a Clearcut, Clatsop County, Orego. All photographs, from a series dating 1999–2003, are gelatin silver prints lent by anonymous private collectors, Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.