New Topographics
Robert Adams. Lewis Baltz. Bernd and Hilla Becher.
Joe Deal. Frank Gohlke. Nicholas Nixon.John Schott.
Stephen Shore. Henry Wessel, Jr.
Steidl Press. 2009

First book purchase of 2011 is one that I have been lusting after since it was issued last year to coincide with the exhibition. It has all the image plates from the exhibition, an extensive new essay, as well as a fully reproduced catalog from the original 1975 exhibition. Fantastic.

Sunset Beach, Ca. By Joe Deal 1978

Joe Deal, New Topographics Landscape Photographer (1947-2010)

An intrinsic element of Mr. Deal’s work was its perceptive and at times disquieting take on the American landscape and we who inhabit it. Deal and other photographers whose work was brought together under the description “New Topographics” recognized the increasingly threatened state of the American landscape, both physically and psychologically. They directed attention as well to a sense of ennui and hopelessness that characterizes so much of life in this fragmented post-modernist time.
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