In the fall of 1968, Robert Adams (born 1937), a college English teacher, found himself inexplicably drawn to photograph a nondescript area south of Colorado Springs whose most notable feature was a truck stop off the interstate. Unflinching in their descriptiveness, yet embodying a mysteriously radiant peace, the pictures Adams made of the otherwise graceless site confirmed for him a vital new way of relating to the world. He transformed this revelation into The New West, the book that established both his photographs and his subject, the contemporary landscape of the American frontier, as matters of wider consequence. - Photoeye.com

Robert Adams is now a famous American photographer who started off as a professor at Colorado College.  My initial introduction to his photography did not end well.  I couldn’t grasp the significance of some his work.  Those works still leave me cold however, others seem to hit the nail on the head.  Several taken here in Colorado really capture not only a moment in time but also the look of Colorado in the early 70’s.

I recently purchased his book EDEN which captures this small village that is north of Pueblo.  It is still there but almost nothing exists of that bygone time.  While on a 3 day photography jaunt to photograph Highway 50 I went through Eden and this is the only thing left that is identifiable from Robert ‘s  book

All that is there now is the ubiquitous gas stations, Hotels/Motels.