Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
No one disputes that the 1975 exhibition “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape” was a landmark show. Attendance at the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y., wasn’t huge, and the presentation didn’t introduce any unknown talent. But the show...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
For many, landscape photography need proceed no further than the majestic idylls of Ansel Adams, but in 1975, an exhibition titled “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape” presented a new approach to landscape that has quietly infiltrated the mainstream...
Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape, held in 1975 at the International Museum of Photography George Eastman House, (Rochester, NY) and the show brought together nine photographers—Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape", a re-examination of the landmark exhibition originally held in 1975 at the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House , which brought together ten leading photographers : Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke,...
PYTR 75 (Free subscription) | 17/08/2009
J Bebbett Fitts - Single Sapling J Bebbett Fitts - Symmetrical Trees J Bebbett Fitts - Two trees "Fitts conceived of these works as a response to Lewis Baltz’ striking 1970’s series of photographs of Irvine warehouses. Fitts expands on the theme of the strangely manicured, isolated space; manufactured environments that seem to quantify the human experience of literal space and how...
Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 30/05/2009
The dominance of the the Becher students (Gursky, Ruff, Struth, et al) in the art markets in recent years, it would be easy for collectors to come to the conclusion that everything interesting in German photography was and is emanating from Dusseldorf. The work of Michael Schmidt, is an...
Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 13/04/2009
The last few years have seen a proliferation of survey shows and publications of New Zealand photography and photographers – Marti Friedlander, Anne Noble, Peter Black, Ans Westra, Gary Blackman, and Wayne Barrar. Most of these photographers began their photography as part of the documentary tradition: the photo-journalist, the street...
Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 05/03/2009
In this interview at American SuburbX the American photographer Lewis Baltz says: I've never had any profound loyalty to the idea of photography as a medium but simply as the most efficient way of making or recording an image. And that has changed over the last few years. Now the...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
ZURICH.- On the weekend of 23 to 25 January 2009 the third curated international portfolio viewing featuring young emerging European photographers will be held. As in the previous year, we have invited 42 photographers to present their work for two hours to the public and a selected team of experts. The participants have been chosen from among some 130 nominated photographers.
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