Draft:David Emitt Adams

David Emitt Adams (born 1980) is an American photographer who is known for his wet plate collodion photographs on found objects.

Life and Work
Adams was born in Yuma, Arizona and has lived in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Jakarta. He received his BFA in Photography from Bowling Green State University and his MFA from Arizona State University. He currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Solo Exhibitions

 * POWER, Candela Books+Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, September 6 – October 27, 2019
 * POWER: Art Insights, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, Utah, March 20 – May 5, 2018
 * POWER, Moffett Gallery, F Jay Taylor Visual Arts Center, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana, October 30 – December 4, 2018
 * POWER, Roswell Museum, Roswell, New Mexico, January 13 - May 28, 2017
 * Conversations with History, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts, January 9 - March 2, 2014

Group Exhibitions

 * New Terrain: 21st-Century Landscape Photography, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, April 6, 2024–July 7, 2024
 * Ansel Adams in Our Time, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts, 2018; Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2020; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2021
 * Old School New Rules, The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Missouri, 2019
 * Time Lapse: Contemporary Analog Photography, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, 2019

Publications
Publications with contributions by Adams:
 * New Southern Photography: Images of the Twenty-First Century American South.
 * Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes: Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques, 2nd Edition.

Public Art

 * POWER, LA Metro Art Lightbox Exhibition Program on view at Wilshire/Normandie Station, 2022 – present

Collections
Adams' work is held in the following permanent collections:


 * The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona


 * Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York: 1 tintype on found object (Saguaro, about the same age as Photography, Saguaro National Park, 2013)
 * Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego, San Diego, California
 * Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana: Two tintypes on oil drum lids
 * Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts: 1 tintype on found object (111 Degrees, Facing West, 2014)
 * Candela Books+Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
 * Northlight Gallery, Tempe, Arizona