In the mid-1970s Robert Adams began recording nocturnal scenes near his former home in
Longmont Colorado. Illuminated by moon- light and streetlamp suburban houses roads
sidewalks and fields seemed transfigured. 25 years after first publishing a sequence of these
pictures in 1985 as Summer Nights he revisited his project amending its title and completely
re-editing its contents to create a more disquieting and thus more accurate reflection of his
experience. Hailed as a new classic Summer Nights Walking went out of print soon after it was
published in 2009. This sensitively enlarged edition printed with the same exquisite care as
the original makes this revered body of work available to a new audience.
