New Topography

New Topography is a movement in photographic art in which the landscape is depicted complete with the alterations of humans. It is sometimes seen as a reaction against natural landscape photography, of the sort exemplified by Ansel Adams' photographs of Yosemite. While natural landscape photography is careful to depict only wilderness, New Topography shows landscapes that include roads, housing projects, bridges, and other man-made additions to the landscape.

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Photographic - Landscape - Ansel Adams - Yosemite - Wilderness

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The 1975 exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape defines this movement. William Jenkins organized this exhibition for the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY. It included works by Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel, Jr.

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George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film - Robert Adams - Lewis Baltz - Bernd and Hilla Becher

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