Topic: New Topographers? (Read 3270 times)

jpjespersen · « **on:** March 31, 2008, 06:33:54 pm »

Hello, Does anyone know where I can find info on The New Topographers. I met with the Curator of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art today and he stated that I should know who these people are and what they are doing, however I am having bad results with Google. Does anyone know any links.

snickgrr · « **Reply #1 on:** March 31, 2008, 06:52:46 pm »

Google popped up some stuff for me, one being a discussion on LL.

Kirk Gittings · « **Reply #2 on:** March 31, 2008, 09:00:30 pm »

Do a Google search for NEW TOPOGRAPHICS for the origins of this movement. This is a good overview:

New Topographics

I was fortunate to be around back then and knew a number of these artists. It was an interesting time that is seeing a resurgence.

sjstremb · « **Reply #3 on:** March 31, 2008, 09:02:16 pm »

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Hello, Does anyone know where I can find info on The New Topographers. I met with the Curator of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art today and he stated that I should know who these people are and what they are doing, however I am having bad results with Google. Does anyone know any links.
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I think he intended to refer to it as the New Topographic movement in photography from the 1980's. This was an important movement in the 70 and 80 and included photographers as Joe Deal and Robert Adams.

check out this link:

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jpjespersen · « **Reply #4 on:** March 31, 2008, 10:34:50 pm »

Thanks a lot guys. New Topographics is the term to search. Found some good stuff.

JP

Leonardo Barreto · « **Reply #5 on:** March 31, 2008, 11:37:36 pm »

Thank you for changing the lever that sent my train of thought away from the mechanics of photography and in to a destination where I was a decade ago and did not know the name.

In other words, so much talk about equipment that this entire school of photography that makes sense, but is the first time I can see is a googable movement is refreshing.

I worked for a few years (in the 90's) with a 4x5 and Velvia film in the city of Tokyo in an personal urban landscape project that is exactly Topographics -- only I didn't know it ==.

I am working now on a few 8x10 black and white images I took in Ecuador, two in the Amazon rain forest and scanned to 500MB - 1G (they go up or down depending on the work I do) and I have added drawings that I do of construction cranes in New York. So this is bringing the man made objects to nature -before it actually happens-

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Thanks a lot guys. New Topographics is the term to search. Found some good stuff.

JP
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jimgolden · « **Reply #6 on:** April 01, 2008, 12:00:32 am »

very refreshing topic indeed - I've followed many of these (and this type) photographers for a while now...some of my favorite type of work. heavy meeting eh JP?

snickgrr · « **Reply #7 on:** April 01, 2008, 12:39:38 pm »

Leonardo.....very nice.

eric101 · « **Reply #8 on:** April 05, 2008, 08:44:25 am »

If anyone wants to read more on Robert Adams, here is a very good essay by Tod Papageorge from a few years back on Adams and his book What We Bought.

It doesn't really address him in the context of New Topographers directly, but is illuminating critically and contains a good amount of information about Adams' working methods.

What We Bought is out of print, but Yale is planning to reissue it next year, along with Denver. And Aperture has just reissued The New West.

TMARK · « **Reply #9 on:** April 06, 2008, 02:22:47 am »

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Hello, Does anyone know where I can find info on The New Topographers. I met with the Curator of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art today and he stated that I should know who these people are and what they are doing, however I am having bad results with Google. Does anyone know any links.
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Is this for reals? Did you meet with Charlotte or just Tim? My father is an artist in LA and is tight with the curators. They like their peeps to know their art/photo history. Without knowing where we've been your just making a pretty picture.

free1000 · « **Reply #10 on:** April 06, 2008, 03:23:05 am »

I've just read Malcolm Andrews history "Landscape in Western Art", which includes a chapter on the 'old topographics' of the Dutch landscape painters... fascinating to find out where things have come from...

Just bought John Davies book of British Landscapes, sort of a mixture of the topographic style of the Bechers 'Industrial Landscapes' but mixed with a more modernist and pictorial style. Totally delicious work.

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