Prairie，文章

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Inspired by a love of the American landscape and motivated by deeply-held principles of ecological stewardship, Adams has produced a penetrating vision of a rapidly changing topography. If Denver and What We Bought together with The New West form a loo trilogy of Adam's work exploring the developing landscape of the Denver metropolitan area from 1968 through 1974, Prairie reprents a postscript study of that vast inland expan know as the Great Plains, at the edge of which sits Denver, before the Rocky Mountains ri to their snow-capped heights.

The images published in Prairie depict the landscape and farmhous, the gravel roads and trees, the broad sky and furrowed fields so familiar to anyone having travelled through that part of the country. Adams' compositions are frank and unntimental, but with a nod to the poetic and overlooked. It is this conscientious attention to the small nuanced aspects of daily life that has made Adams one of the most influential figures in the history of American photography. Originally published in 1978 by the Denver Art Muum, Prairie is being reissued with an expanded lection of images made at the same time and chon and quenced by Adams. Many of the newly added photographs have never been published before. This handsome new edition, printed in rich tritone, celebrates an early body of work that has remained unknown by most, until now.（原文）