"To what extent can we love the developing American West? We know the urgency of that question because bitterness has sometimes made us exiles. My first attempt to describe the region in a book ( The New West , 1974) omitted pictures that might have helped. I am grateful now to be able to reproduce them. They record a geography that is still in some respects characteristic, one where we could do better but where the rest is faultless. At about the time I took the pictures I read an interview with Raoul Coutard, Jean-Luc Godard's cameraman. In it Coutard noted with gratitude that 'daylight has an inhuman faculty for always being perfect.' It is one of the mercies, I believe, by which each of us is allowed to live." -- Robert Adams, from Commercial/Residential

In 1999, Andrew Roth published a nearly-forgotten portfolio of Robert Adams photographs from 1968 entitled Eden. Published as a companion volume to Eden, Commercial/Residential continues to trace the early development of Adams' photography. These 40 photographs, 20 in each section, distill the changes taking place all over the American West during the early 70s—a chronicle of steady encroachment upon wilderness. 

This copy is in VG condition with some shelfware and a minor overflow of glue separated from 1st title page not effecting binding, and mostly noticeable because of black page facing white page. See photo and inquire if you have additional questions.