I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them โ what things they must photograph, things they have to try to shoot even before they master the intricacies of making dye transfer prints.
Robert AdamsPart of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradictionโand the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.
Robert AdamsIn a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear and ask what you are doing and that you can't answer, and you haven't many references, and you don't know the law. Neither is it easy to find and know the subjects for portraits or comfortable to make such picture when you cannot apply an anesthesia of small talk.
Robert AdamsStill photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life, however, on summer nights, when the sounds outside, after we call in children and close garage doors, are small - the whir of moths, the snap of a stick.
Robert Adams