New Topographics - Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape

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New Topographics - Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape

Photographs: Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore & Henry Wessel,Jr

Publisher: International Museum of Photography

48 pages

Pictures: 24

Year: 1975

Comments: Softcover, 230 x 260 mm. First edition, 1975. Black & white photographs. Text in english. Extremely little wear on cover. One fold at back cover. Kept in very good condition. Copy is solid and clean(just a little fold on the back cover). Very scarce! Collector's copy!

A groundbreaking and highly influential exhibition curated by William Jenkins, New Topographics organized the work of ten photographers who photographed the landscape in a non-traditional way. While Ansel Adams and his followers photographed dramatic and astounding beauty in the landscape, the New Topographics photographers emphasized the tension between the land's traditional beauty and the results of our presence within it. "Pictures should look like they were easily taken," said Robert Adams around the time of this show. "Otherwise beauty in the world is made to seem elusive and rare, which it is not." Adams' own The New West and Lewis Baltz's New Industrial Parks preceded this important exhibition. However, it was the exhibition itself that conceptualized and made public the work by these photographers as a major movement in photography.