No Small Journeys: Across Shopping Center Parking Lots, Down City Streets

“No Small Journeys” relates to a series of photographs of Denver and its suburbs near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, a version of which was published by Aperture under the title “Our Lives and our Children” in 1983. In recent years, Adams felt it was important to expand the project to emphasize the simple beauty and humanity that can be found in the seemingly improbable environments we have created for ourselves all across America. Rather than focus on some looming disaster, he composed this series as a testament to that unlikely and markedly human beauty.

Published to accompany an exhibition “Robert Adams: No Small Journeys” at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, November 8 through December 20, 2003.