KELLY WRITERS HOUSE
Ted Adams
"Stills from the Cinematic Street"
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Ted Adams moved to Philadelphia in 1988 at a time when Philadelphia,
a largely working-class industrial city, continued to experience a
period of profound urban decline and malaise. Remnants of this mood still
co-exist today in a city still undergoing gentrification, a process that in its
initial stages creates a temporary, expanded urban field of heterogeneous
displacement. It is within this process of disjunction, contradiction, and
despair that Adams has situated himself and his work.
During the course of his twenty-two year photographic career, Adams
has presented his work at the Arts Bank, Da Vinci Art Alliance,
Franklin & Marshall College, Nexus Foundation, and WXPN-FM. In
addition, Adams' work has been published in the Philadelphia
Independent. Adams is a member of the Philadelphia Conference, the
Philadelphia Photographic Society, the Print Center, and the Plastic
Club.