“Contact,” 2024–

“Contact” is a series of views through antique encyclopedia pages held up to light so that front and back form chance combinations of text and image.

“There is a poignancy in any sheet of printed paper—the page is a single material, but what is printed on either side can never touch, never be seen at once. Adams’ photographs stage an imperative to make contact across this conjuncture of sameness and difference—the Janus face of the printed page.”

— David Joselit