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an old run down gas station sitting on the side of a road next to a street

The exhibition “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape” of 1975 represents a key moment in the development of the artistic photographic scene of the 20th century. The aim was…

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an empty parking lot with several lights on each pole and no one in the distance

My Own Photography I thought I would do an Old search through some photographs of mine from ventures out into the places I have been. I was looking for any photographs that would fit in with the New Topographics works of the "Man Altered Landscape". I wanted to aim to find Images of mine that did not include any People within the shot, this is because I also wanted to show the kind of Deadpan aesthetic within the imagery. I wanted to show street photography that I have taken whilst walking…

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a black and white photo of a dirt road in the desert with mountains in the background

Adams’s influential landscape photographs are poetic documentations of a world that, in the artist’s words, is "a troubling mixture" of ugliness, beauty, chaos, and alchemic order. South of Rocky

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a gas station with cars parked on the side of the road and signs above it

The work of Stephen Shore can be considered as archaeology of the present. The photo ‘Beverly Boulevard at La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 21 June 1975’ from the series Uncommon Places is one of the most famous works by Stephen Shore and cannot be overlooked in the history of American photography. On the photo we see a typical American boulevard with lines of signs, gas stations, lampposts and traffic lights, seemingly chaotic and confusing, yet photographed with a geometric…

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a black and white photo of a dirt road in the middle of an empty field

Robert Adams. Near Pendelton, Oregon. 1978. Gelatin silver print, printed 1994. 14 1/2 × 17 15/16" (36.8 × 45.7 cm). Partial gift of Shirley C. Burden, by exchange. 839.1996. © 2025 Robert Adams, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. Photography

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a black and white photo of trees in front of a wall with glass coverings

39, WEST WALL, SMICOA, 333 MCCORMICK, COSTA MESA © LEWIS BALTZ, IP 39, FROM THE SERIES “NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS, NEAR IRVINE, CALIFORNIA”, 1974; STEIDL Interview (excerpt) with Lewis Baltz Conducted by Matt Witkovsky At Baltz's home in Paris, France. 2009 November 15-17 MR. BALTZ: You aspire

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