For the first time, the photographs that have come to define Robert Adams’s singular response to the landscape of the American West appear together in one substantive volume. American Silence examines Adams’s reverential act of looking at the world around him and the almost palpable silence of his photographs.

Featuring some 175 black-and-white photographs from Adams’s most important projects, the book includes pictures of suburban sprawl and strip malls in addition to rivers and skies, the prairie, and the ocean. While Adams’s photographs lament the ravages that have been inflicted on the land, they also pay homage to what remains.