| In an article
on Henry James's good friend Henry Adams, William Stowe makes
explicit the often implicit prejudices against Americans who travel
abroad: "Travel has always been a seductive, and a slightly
irresponsible activity. This
tradition lost a little steam during the past two decades but has
recently shown signs of rebirth, in the appreciation of artists such as
Robert Adams, William Eggleston, Steven Shore, and Joel Sternfeld, as
well as the rediscovery of "straight" photography by both the
pioneers and second-generation practitioners of the staged or cinematic. Adams, William (1978);Nubia: Corridor to Africa, Allen Lane,
London. |
