Matthew Marks Gallery

ROBERT ADAMS
Turning Back

2005

Special-edition book with photogravure in cloth-covered portfolio box

Photogravure 11¾ × 9⅞ inches; 30 × 25 cm
Book 12 × 10 × 1⅛ inches; 31 × 25 × 3 cm
Portfolio Box 13 × 10⅞ × 2 inches; 33 × 28 × 5 cm

Edition of 30

Photogravure signed and numbered in graphite (lower recto)
Book numbered in ink on colophon

A photogravure of an apple tree dappled in sunlight accompanies this special edition of Robert Adams’s 2005 book Turning Back, which explores the role of trees and forests in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The same series was the subject of a 2016 exhibition at the Colby College Museum of Art.