An eerie image from Adams's book
Whenever we WOMmites need book recs, we turn to Traveler's best-read ed, Hanya Yanagihara, who's buying up copies of Summer Nights, Walking (published by Aperture) to give to her friends this Christmas. Her thoughts on the photographic tome:
"There’s something about 'Summer Nights'—photographer Robert Adams’s 1970s series of luminous, moonlit black-and-white images shot (at night, of course) around his home in Colorado—that always makes me think of The Platters’ 'Twilight Time.' Both have the same plangent loveliness, the same unsettling sense of mystery. Summer Nights, the book, was originally published in 1985, and now it’s been reissued to include 39 previously unpublished images—never has the American suburb looked so richly nuanced."
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