New Topographics

“New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape” was a pioneering exhibition of existing landscape photography grasped at the George Eastman House’s International Museum of Photography from October 1975 to February 1976. The show, curated by William Jenkins, had a unending impact on beautiful and abstract approaches to American landscape photography

Topography was both a reflection of the progressively suburbanised world about them, and a reaction to the dictatorship of idealised landscape photography that elevated the natural and the basic.

New Topographics photography questioned the supposed differentiation between cultural and open landscapes. In doing so, the New Topographics photographers formally refer to and ironize past countenances of “pristine” wilderness

A critical juncture in the history of photography, the 1975 exhibition New Topographics signalled a radical shift outside limits traditional descriptions of landscape.

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