Key artists from the exhibit include Robert Adams, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, and Stephen Shore.
What was the importance of the New Topographics show and its movement?
On the one hand, New Topographics represented a radical shift by redefining the subject of landscape photography as the built (as opposed to the natural) environment. To comprehend the significance of this, it helps to consider the type of imagery that previously dominated the genre in the United States.
What was the New Topographics a reaction to?
Their stark, beautifully printed images of this mundane but oddly fascinating topography was both a reflection of the increasingly suburbanised world around them, and a reaction to the tyranny of idealised landscape photography that elevated the natural and the elemental
Robert Adams, Tract House, Westminster, Colorado, 1974, George Eastman House collections
Once you have completed your photo walk from Havre Des Pas to La Collette you should aim to make comparisons with photographers and their work
Your image selection and editing may be guided by this work…and you must show that you can make creative connections.
Albert Renger Patszch and The New Objectivity
https://www.atlasofplaces.com/photography/new-objectivity/
Keld Helmer Petersen
https://www.keldhelmerpetersen.com/1950-1959