New Topographics, Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape. Photographs by Robert Adams, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel, Jr. Introduction by William Jenkins. International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, 1975. 48 pp. Printed in an edition of 2500 copies. Numerous black-and-white reproductions.
A show of momentous importance in the history of photography in the 1970s. In it, as David Levi-Strauss explains in The Book of 101 Books, the work of Adams, the Bechers, Baltz, et. al. was "pitted against the ethics and aesthetics of the old Modernist landscape photography of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Minor White, and others."
Near Fine: Some foxing to front wrapper; two small half-inch abrasions and two scratches to rear wrapper; typical age related yellowing; an otherwise nice copy of a landmark book. |
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