New Topographics
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New Topographics is a 1970s photographic movement known for its detached, documentary-style depictions of banal, human-altered landscapes that challenged traditional notions of beauty in landscape photography.
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| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| New Topographics photographers | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
art movement
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photographic movement ⓘ |
| artHistoricalContext |
early postmodernism
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late modernism ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Becher school NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| challenges | traditional notions of beauty in landscape photography ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception |
initially controversial
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later highly influential ⓘ |
| curator | William Jenkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt | George Eastman House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exhibitionLocation | Rochester, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exhibitionYear | 1975 ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
industrial sites
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man-made interventions in nature ⓘ suburban development ⓘ urban sprawl ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
banal subject matter
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deadpan visual style ⓘ detached aesthetic ⓘ documentary style ⓘ emphasis on objectivity ⓘ focus on human-altered landscapes ⓘ rejection of romantic landscape traditions ⓘ use of black-and-white photography ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
conceptual photography
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contemporary landscape photography ⓘ documentary photography ⓘ |
| inception | 1975 ⓘ |
| includesPhotographer |
Bernd Becher
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Frank Gohlke NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Wessel Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Hilla Becher NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Deal NERFINISHED ⓘ John Schott NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewis Baltz NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicholas Nixon NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Shore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| movementNameCoinedBy | William Jenkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movementType | landscape photography movement ⓘ |
| notableExhibition | New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfOriginalPhotographers | 10 ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
industrial structures
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ordinary built environment ⓘ parking lots ⓘ roads and highways ⓘ tract housing ⓘ |
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New Topographics photographers