Adams’s vision is so steady that it is virtually impossible to tell which photographs are recent and which are older. The consistently compassionate and unfooled quality of his attention is not paradoxical: Adams understands that true compassion is cleareyed, earning the good only after allowing for the bad. A road offers the possibility of taking you somewhere but also poses a question about the cost of roadwork, what violence has been done to both nature and culture in the name of progress.

Adams’s vision is so steady that it is virtually impossible to tell which photographs are recent and which are older. The consistently compassionate and unfooled quality of his attention is not paradoxical: Adams understands that true compassion is cleareyed, earning the good only after allowing for the bad. A road offers the possibility of taking you somewhere but also poses a question about the cost of roadwork, what violence has been done to both nature and culture in the name of progress.

Adams’s vision is so steady that it is virtually impossible to tell which photographs are recent and which are older. The consistently compassionate and unfooled quality of his attention is not paradoxical: Adams understands that true compassion is cleareyed, earning the good only after allowing for the bad. A road offers the possibility of taking you somewhere but also poses a question about the cost of roadwork, what violence has been done to both nature and culture in the name of progress.