SFMOMA to Feature A Seminal 1975 Photography Exhibition Reprisal

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco
Museum of
Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present New Topographics: Photographs of a
Man-Altered
Landscape, on view from July 17 to October 3, 2010. Comprised of close
to 150
photographs, it is a restaging of a historically significant exhibition
held in
1975 at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. This reprisal
brings
together the work of all ten photographers included in the original New
Topographics: Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla
Becher, Joe
Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and
Henry Wessel
Jr. Widely considered one of the seminal exhibitions in the history of
photography, New Topographics signaled the emergence of a radically new
approach
to landscape and demonstrated the influence of Conceptualism and
Minimalism on
photography in the 1970s.
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