{"id":678,"date":"2009-06-10T21:18:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T21:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=678"},"modified":"2009-06-10T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T21:18:08","slug":"new-topographics-revived-no-uk-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"New Topographics Revived – No UK Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1975, I was one of many youngish photographers to be excited and to an extent influenced by the work shown in an exhibition at George Eastman House curated by William Jenkins called “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape<\/em>.” Not that I went to Rochester, but I read the reports in the US magazines, looked at books and catalogues, and at pictures which did come over to exhibitions here, and even went and did a workshop with one of the photographers included, Lewis Balz. (The full listing of those included: Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel Jr<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

I think you can see a certain influence in some of the work I’ve done since then, particularly on the urban landscape, a genre central to the show.\u00a0 Without it I don’t think I would have set up the Urban Landscape web site, or produced many of the images on it – such as this of the DLR at Blackwall:<\/p>\n

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\nDLR Blackwall, 1994, Peter Marshall
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The NPR article <\/a>on the show, with a slide show of a dozen images that is worth viewing at full screen – for once you really do get larger images, not just fuzzier ones, is surely quite wrong to state that the paradigm shift this show produced “was imperceptible at the time<\/em>.”\u00a0 To photographers such as myself it was as imperceptible as a thunderbolt.<\/p>\n

The reason for the feature is that a new version of this show, new version of this seminal exhibition, organized by\u00a0 George Eastman House<\/em> with the Center for Creative Photography<\/em> at the University of Arizona opens at GEH on Saturday, June 13 and runs until Sunday, September 27, 2009. As well as 100 works from the 1975 show, it also has “some 30 prints and books by other relevant artists to provide additional historical and contemporary context<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

After Rochester the show will travel to eight international venues.<\/p>\n