Bernd and Hilla Becher, Nicholas Nixon, and Thomas Struth “New York Topographics”
Senior & Shopmaker Gallery
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Senior & Shopmaker Gallery presents New York Topographics, a group exhibition featuring photographs of New York City by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Nicholas Nixon, and Thomas Struth.
A term coined by curator William Jenkins in 1975, “New Topographics” described a group of landscape photographers, Nixon and the Bechers among them, whose pictures had an elegantly banal aesthetic. Jenkins’ exhibition at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York titled New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape brought to the fore the work of photographers who challenged the ideology of America’s longstanding myths of nature and the West. Rigorously formal, predominantly black-and-white prints of city streets, warehouses, industrial sites, and suburban housing stood in stark contrast to a tradition of idealized landscape photography heretofore practiced by artists such as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston.
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from February 05, 2016 to March 26, 2016