Thanks for the recommendation. I'm flying to Seattle tomorrow—flight's too short for Nixon in China but I downloaded a few of his other pieces.
Regarding Adams, Robert: for me, it's the sequence of images in those books rather than individual pictures that have the most power. Often, there's only a slight variation from one to the next, the photographer moving just a few steps, one way or the other. It conveys a strong sense of an embodied observer embedded in the landscape, so different from that more famous Adams (Ansel), who seemingly went to great lengths to portray landscapes as untouched and untouchable, seen from a disembodied (even floating) POV.
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