VANCOUVER, BC.- The Vancouver Art Gallery launched Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, an exhibition of the life work of eminent American photographer Robert Adam. The retrospective is on display at the Gallery until January 16, 2011, the first stop in an international tour of North America and Europe. Over the past four decades photographer Robert Adams has come to be widely regarded as one of the most original and significant chroniclers of the western American landscape. The first large-scale exhibition of Adams’ work to be presented in Canada, Robert Adams: The Place We Live traces the artist’s longstanding engagement with the degradation of the environment in the face of suburban development. “The Vancouver Art Gallery is honored to have been selected as the first venue for the international tour