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LACMA presents international touring retrospective of American photographer Robert Adams

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, an exhibition that showcases the artistic legacy of American photographer Robert Adams (b. 1937) and his longstanding engagement with the contemporary Western landscape. Featuring nearly three hundred photographs and a key selection of the artist’s publications, the retrospective weaves together four decades of Adams’s work into an epic narrative of American experience in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Adams’s work reflects his dedication to describing the changing Western landscape—the growth of its built environment and the lives of its inhabitants—contemplating the presence of trees, the open plains, the Pacific Ocean, and the deforestation of the Pacific