Overview
"In 1975 the exhibition ""New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape"" crystallized a new view of the American West: the sublime ""American"" vistas of Ansel Adams were replaced and subverted by images of a landscape inundated with banal symbols of humanity. Organized by William Jenkins for the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, ""New Topographics"" showcased such photographers as Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal, and Frank Gohlke. Their pictures definitively changed the course of landscape photography. ""Reframing the New Topographics"" offers the first substantive analysis of this shift and the continuing influence of an exhibition that not only reshaped the look and subject matter of landscape photography, but also foreshadowed environmentalism's expansion beyond the mere preservation of wilderness. The essays in this anthology will add an important new dimension to the studies of art history and visual culture."
Full Product Details
Author: Gregory Foster-Rice ,
John Rohrbach
Publisher: Center for American Places,US
Imprint: Center for American Places,US
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 23.20cm
Weight: 0.556kg
ISBN: 9781935195092
ISBN 10: 1935195093
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 15 February 2011
Audience:
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""The appearance of New Topographics in 1975 forever changed our ideas about landscape photography. Reframing the New Topographics will change our ideas about New Topographics. We see the pictures anew and learn that their difficult and often deadpan confrontation of suburban sprawl and middle-class plenty belonged to a wider set of struggles that are still very much with us today. This is a heady ride back to the future."" (Anthony W. Lee, Mount Holyoke College, founder and editor of the Defining Moments in American Photography series)"""
The appearance of New Topographics in 1975 forever changed our ideas about landscape photography. Reframing the New Topographics will change our ideas about New Topographics. We see the pictures anew and learn that their difficult and often deadpan confrontation of suburban sprawl and middle-class plenty belonged to a wider set of struggles that are still very much with us today. This is a heady ride back to the future. (Anthony W. Lee, Mount Holyoke College, founder and editor of the Defining Moments in American Photography series)
Author Information
Greg Foster-Rice is professor of art history in the photography department at Columbia College Chicago. John Rohrbach is the senior curator of photographs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
