**Wooden books, birds and boats beautifully handcrafted by Robert Adams and photographed with luminous clarity by curator and editor Joshua Chang **

**Wooden books, birds and boats beautifully handcrafted by Robert Adams and photographed with luminous clarity by curator and editor Joshua Chang **

In the summer and fall of 2017, the photographer Robert Adams (born 1937) invited Joshua Chuang (born 1976)--writer, editor, Senior Curator of Photography at the New York Public Library and frequent collaborator of Adams'--to document the wooden objects that Adams has made over the years for his own consolation and pleasure.

The resulting color pictures--of half-model ships and boats, a miscellany of open books and cherished species of birds, all formed by hand from wood--have been brought together with views from the home that Adams shares with his wife Kerstin in Astoria, Oregon, to reveal a little-known aspect of his search for coherence in a fractured world.