The Sacred
Juror • Robert Adams

August 11 – September 5, 2018

Submission Deadline, Midnight, Monday, June 25, 2018

LightBox Photographic Gallery is honored to have Robert Adams as juror.

Photographs included in The Sacred might have as their subjects a town, a family, a field, a church, a book, anything the photographer sees with the deepest respect.

sacred
1) a : dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity a tree sacred to the gods
b : devoted exclusively to one service or use (as of a person or purpose) a fund sacred to charity
2) a : worthy of religious veneration : holy
b : entitled to reverence and respect
3) : of or relating to religion
4) a : unassailable, inviolable
b : highly valued and important a sacred responsibility
— sacredly adverb
— sacredness noun

Robert Adams was born in New Jersey in 1937, and moved to Colorado as a teenager. Adams was a professor of English literature for several years before turning his full attention to photography in the mid 1970s. His work is largely concerned with moments of regional transition: the suburbanization of Denver, a changing Los Angeles of the 1970s and 1980s, and the clear-cutting in Oregon in the 1990s. His many books, well-known to those concerned with the American Landscape, include The New West, From the Missouri West, Summer Nights, Los Angeles Spring, To Make It Home, Listening to the River, West From the Columbia, What We Bought, Notes for Friends, California, Summer Nights Walking, Gone?, What Can We Believe Where? and The Place We Live. Adams has also written a number of critical essays, including Beauty in Photography, Why People Photograph and most recently, Art Can Help. Among many awards, Adams has received the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundation fellowships and in 2006, the Deutsche Börse Prize. In 2009, he was awarded the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, and in 2014 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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