I dont know how many times I have watched this video but I always come back with something new from it

maybe he was hoping that 3 million number is how much it will sell for

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Love the editing on this vid

This must rank as the most boring set of snaps ever, totally without any merit whatsoever! The art gatekeepers have excelled themselves with this banal rubbish.

Bless Mikael Owunna

He's right about small museums. I'm so fortunate to work across the street from the Spencer at the University of Kansas. They have a walk-in Friday, when you can just go to their viewing room and make your request, and they'll gladly bring out the artwork and set it up for you. I've gotten to see original work by so many artists and photographers. They're also very knowledgeable and friendly.

Little did Richard Burton know...the animal kingdom is full of species that engage in same-sex coitus/bonding; so even his "too animal to be queer" argument doesn't hold up lol. I'm definitely getting Owunna's book, this was a great presentation. His reclamation journey mirrors mine in so many ways. I'm a Black American lesbian, and before I decided to come out to my very Christian mother, I did a ton of research on Queer Black history in the U.S., throughout the Black diaspora, and pre-colonial Africa. The information I gathered really helped me embrace the totality of myself. I'm not saying that its always easy, but healing backwards has certainly made it easier than I ever imagined it could be.

Still come back to this and watch it from time to time, my favorite photographer and a real gift to us all.

Worthless eyesores marring a beautiful campus. Why?

I love this guy so so much.

Has Adam’s moved to digital since he said it’s more about being out there vs working on the picture later?

Possibly the best video I’ve seen on KZfaq. Or, maybe just want I needed to hear now.

*EXCELLENT WORK*

Romans and Trojans were both of Greek origin, the Greeks colonised and influenced most of Italy and Asia Minor!!!!!! There is no debate,Greece brought everything to Rome,but Rome had nothing to give to Greece apart from slavery!

almost every project begins with a gift ... thank you to Robert from Michael Adams (photographer, author from Germany)!

Photo Books without words. The chance to dream. I thought I was alone on an island.

Thank you for this video, and in particular your beautiful and insightful commentary. A wonderful start to my day.

Thanks for posting. The artist's counting to infinity is a project unto itself. I believe Borofsky has counted beyond 5 million at this point.

Books about deforestation are so cool that everyone should own a few.

Thank you for this.

I wish his books were re-printed more often so the price of old prints is driven down. I absolutely cant afford the ones I want (there are 3 in particular I really want).

I absolutely admire and respect Robert Adams' lifelong dedication and mastery. His pictures are so poignant and lucid. I also share the same sad view on our "modern" world, something he sums up very well in the later part of the interview: "The glory of the natural world and the tragic nature of human beings". However, when it comes to the questions he asks (9:12): "What have we traded, what do we get in exchange?" He implicitly criticizes the timber industry when he owns the sleek polished ebony chairs and table in the background of the room there. The same extractive practices happened somewhere else in the world for him to get the furniture on which he seats. My point is, today we need the tools (the KZfaq servers that carry the data forth and back) and products (the laptop I use to write that message here) or objects which cause a lot of environmental damage to say (and do) something about that very damage. That is, we are pulled deeper and deeper in a large ecological maelstrom. And it seems like we can no longer get off as Robert Adams rightfully observes (11:36).

wow not sure whether to laugh or cry. probably will just smoke a cigarette.

Thank you for sharing, artists like Mr Adams are integral to my creative practice. Here in Australia the sense of isolation seems sometimes over bearing; but when I hear Mr Adams speak, I know it is all worth while.

I'm sorry, I never would have imagined that the discussion degenerated to this way. I was just looking for a healthy dialectic.

true. Apologies.

Ladies and gentlemen, a gentle reminder: let's keep the discussion civil, please.

Ladies and gentlemen, a gentle reminder: let's keep the discussion civil, please.

you finally proved just a pathetic arrogant that always wants to be right, you do not give lessons in culture, but learn a bit of humility, never read Socrates?

This is not a conversation. It's a private lesson on how to overcome your bias. I suggest you spend some time on educating yourself. Read and learn. It's all in there. Rome is a derivative of Greek culture and sophistication. Case closed.

I seem to have lost you calm becoming stupidly offensive, probably the inferiority complex is your prerogative being incapable of a civil discussion, I do not have time to waste!

Nonsense a la Romana.

I know well that the Greek colonies were spread throughout the Mediterranean, especially in Magna Graecia. In fact, the Romans came in contact with Greek civilization long before the conquest of Greece. For this reason the Greeks came into conflict with the Carthaginians for the control of Sicily, the so-called greek-Punic Wars. The Roman Empire, however, had much higher extension to the Greek colonies in the Mediterranean.

The Romans had not lost all greek knowledge, exactly the opposite, Greek historians such as Polybius, Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus were incredibly fascinated by the history of Rome and they studied it. We could say that much of what we know about the history of Rome, we owe it to the Greek historians. This your interpretation of a materialistic Roman civilization and idealistic and spiritual Greek civilization, it seems to me too simplistic and unreal.

Check this map out and tell me That the romans did not copy it: "maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=205515069585992881058.000459cb46f4b6a3e2fa7&msa=0"

Zero nationalism here. All I am saying is pull out a map of Ancient Greece (Google Ancient Greece map) and see all the Greek city states dotting the entire Mediterranean and Black Sea. Greece was everywhere. Greece was it. Modern Greece is confined in an area about 10% of the ancient space of Greek cities.

(cont.). I am talking about the Library of Alexandia that contained all knowledge and sophistication of the ancient world. This is where the Arabs were exposed to the Greeks and re-introduced it to Europe later as the Renaissance. The Romans had lost all knowledge and had regressed. Greek wisdom not only helped an indifferent Rome(interested only in material things) but saved Italy again through the Renaissance i.e. the re-introduction of all Greek knowledge and wisdom.

No question that the end of Greece was the Peloponnesian war (aka a Greek civil war). The obsession with Sparta and Alexander the great is usually from military circles. They are the ones who admire the tactics, toughness and training. I am not impressed but that part. It's o.k. but this is not the essence of Greece. I am talking about a mathematician called Archimedes; I am talking about the Greeks who invented the Antikythera mechanism(the worlds' first computer)......(cont).

The Greeks get excited talking about Sparta, glorious warriors who stopped the Persians at Thermopylae, this elite could live training at the war, through the brutal exploitation of the Helots. The Greeks were massacred in the Peloponnesian War, but also in the Sacred Wars for power, not for philosophy or art. Greece was not a private club, it was a weakened area in which Rome saw a possibility of expansion.

Claudius: No one suggest that Rome had no impact on human civilization. But I don't think was a good impact or a balanced impact. It was an impact of excess. Granted some peoples like the British see in Rome the beginning of their own history. So that's a form of revisionism because you recreate history to fit the national myth. The Greek cities of the Mediterranean, be it in Asia Minor, Egypt, Libya, Coastal Spain, coastal France, the southern Italy were beacons of sophistication.

It seems to me that you can not do well to distinguish the Roman Republic from Imperial Rome. The Roman civilization, in over a thousand years of history, has been many things, good and bad. " Rome was remembered for its extreme arrogance, blood thirstiness, popular entertainment, private vice and orgies of the excess"???? it is a statement that will define reductive is a pure understatement. You have a very romanticized and idealistic vision of Greece.

Claudius, you still don't get it. Being Greek and Greek educated was the elite of the ancient world. It's like being a member of a private club with barriers to entry. Rome lusted after admittance but never really received it. Rome thought that conquered Greece but we all know now that it was Greece that conquered Rome with its ideas, culture and sophistication. Whether Rome spread civilization or not, the jury is still out. Arrogant people only spread their stench and nothing else.

Claudius, Claudius. I think you are romantic. You are taking a religious narrative which wishes Vatican to be the center of things and you are promoting a pseudo-agenda of Roman civilization. Rome was remembered for its extreme arrogance, blood thirstiness, popular entertainment, private vice and orgies of the excess. In other words, everything anti-Greek imaginable; Greek culture had an emphasis on curbing appetites, reaching the golden mean, the balanced center, the essence of the universe.

Greece as Number One?, just as the first great European civilization, but without Rome, Greece would become a Carthaginian domination. The great greek historian Polybius recognized that the strength of Rome was in the strong sense of the State and the respect for the institutions that the Roman citizens had, they were ready to put themselves at the service of the Republic when they were called. that's why over fifty years, Rome became the ruler of Mediterraneo, while Greece succumbed.

Without the conquest, the Roman civilization would have stayed in the center of Italy, and perhaps it would be remembered in history books as the Greek, but Rome has left deep traces in the culture and European civilization to the present day. All the most important European documents (eg Magna Carta) were written in Latin and it is thanks to Rome that Christianity is the religion of Europe. Greece represented the ancient world, the Roman civilization is already part of modern civilization.

Claudius: If you are one of those people fascinated with conquest and confusing it with civilization, then it would be hard to continue. Yes, Alexander ruled an empire larger than Rome because he had to get it out of his system (revenging the Persian wars). And after that Greece slowly collapsed because empires are a human nonsense construct driven by insecurities and inferiority complexes. And yes Pergamum(Asia Minor) and Macedonia were Greek and fighting each other. We Greeks are good at that.

Claudius: The idea of Greece as Numero Uno can't be nationalistic because Greece was not a nation, rather an affiliation of Greek speaking states. As to your Roman achievements in law and engineering, I will give you law but even the Colosseum was built by a Greek architect from Asia Minor. That Rome had philosophers and poets is not in dispute; rather that those philosophers and poets did not leave behind a legacy to equal the Greek thought and science which all Romans considered unsurpassed.

Hard to argue if we start from the opinionated nationalistic idea that Greece was the light and everything was dark, like I said, the Greek culture spread throughout Europe by way of Rome, which the enrichment with its laws and its engineering, but also with its philosophers Cicero, Seneca, Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius and its poets and writers such as Horace, Ovid, Catullus, Virgil.