New Topographics Robert Adams
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The New West
Originally published in 1974, this book is now regarded as a classic book of photography in the pantheon of landmark projects exploring American culture and society.
Reframing the New Topographics
Author: Greg Foster-Rice
language: en
Publisher: Center for American Places
Release Date: 2010
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, Frank Gohlke. Their pictures, illustrating the vernacular, human-made world of contemporary America, punctured the myth of the pristine, wild American landscape—and 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.
Summer Nights
"The intimate black and white photographs made at night in suburban and rural Colorado are not pictures that reveal their meaning to the casual viewer. Adams's photographs force one to pay attention to small details, to focus on the subtle beauty of the urban environment and to almost hear the stillness of a summer night. We are asked to look with a fresh vision at that which is common -the quiet suburban street, the house with a single light, the lamp post in a field, the pick-up truck, and the ferris wheel glowing in the heat of early evening. Like a poem, Adams's sequence of photographs brings new and unusual meaning to the world around us." -- Taken from Fraenkel Gallery's website.