Art and Photography

New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape

Rochester, NY: International Museum of Photography, 1975

Oblong 4to.; illustrated throughout in color and black and white; printed wrappers. Near fine.

First edition. For the exhibition that came to define an important photographic tendency, curator William Jenkins selected ten photographers (Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel, jr.), represented each of them with ten photographs and introduced the catalog with an essay that described a common aesthetic in the work that consisted of being “stripped of any artistic frills and reduced to an essentially topographic state, conveying substantial amounts of visual information but eschewing entirely the aspects of beauty, emotion and opinion.”

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