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"NEW TOPOGRAPHICS". Collectif. Editions Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, George Eastman House, Rochester & Steidl, Göttingen. 2010. Deuxième édition.
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NEW TOPOGRAPHICS

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  • "NEW TOPOGRAPHICS". Collectif. Editions Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, George Eastman House, Rochester & Steidl, Göttingen. 2010. Deuxième édition. Imprimé en Allemagne. in-4, format oblong, couverture toilée grise titrée. 304 pages. Textes en anglais de Britt Salvesen et de Alison Nordström, illustré de très nombreuses reproductions photographiques noir & blanc et couleurs, in-texte et hors texte, dont 109 en noir & blanc et 7 en couleurs de photographes tels : Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore & Henry Wessel Jr. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme itinérante qui débuta au George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film de Rochester (New York) du 13 Juin au 27 Septembre 2009. 


    "The 1970s were anxious years for Americans, bracketed politically by presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and photographically by Diane Arbus and Cindy Sherman. When Lewis Baltz made precisely that observation in 1985, he was admitting but not conceding cynicism. Emerging form the chaos of the '60s and coming up against dead ends in the '70s, Baltz and others initiated a rigorous search for ways out. New Topographics:  Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape, an exhibition that took place at the decade's midpoint, presented results of this search and opened new directions for photography in relation to contemporary art and society. As the exhibition's title implies but does not explain, these photographs survey the here and now..." Britt Salvesen.
     

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