European Venues for the New Topographics Show

Robert Adams, Tract House, Westminster, Colorado, 1973

A number of European readers were curious as to where the "New Topographics" show would be traveling there. The official list so far (which Geoff already reported in the comments to the book review post, but which I'll repeat here) is:

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (July 17–October 3, 2010)
Landesgalerie, Linz, Austria (November 10, 2010–January 9 2011)
Die Photographische Sammlung Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany (January 20–March 28, 2011)
The Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (June 25–September 11, 2011)
Museum of Fine Arts, Bilbao, Spain (October 17, 2011–January 8, 2012)

(I've included the S.F. date because it's still upcoming.) In addition, Trinity Parker at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) in Arizona, which organized the show with George Eastman House (GEH), tells me that they are working on adding the Preus Museum in Norway, but that it isn't official yet. Norwegian readers might want to keep an eye on that.

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Nicholas Nixon, View of Cambridge from Boston University, Boston, 1975

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Bernd and Hilla Becher, Pit Head, Bear Valley, Pennsylvania, 1974

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Henry Wessel, Buena Vista, Colorado, 1973

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Stephen Shore, 2nd Street and South Main Street, Kalispell, Montana, August 22, 1974

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Joe Deal, Untitled View (Albuquerque), 1974

The JPEGs are from the CCP website. Here again are the links for the catalog, which should be arriving Chez TOP today, the Amazon warehouse and the brown trucks willing:

New Topographics at Amazon U.S.

New Topographics at Amazon U.K.

Mike

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Comments

[Nick]

Oh Golly, I'll be 40 before they make it here!

[Bill Bresler]

I've never been a real big fan of the social landscape style, but it's starting to grow on me. That Robert Adams "Tract House" is a heck of a photograph. On the other hand, most of the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher seems too academic to me. I guess I'm looking for an emotional response when I view a photograph.

[Wayne]

Being from San Francisco, I appreciate that you've grouped the SFMOMA dates with the other European venues :)

[Ralph Aichinger]

As someone living in Linz, Austria, I am very grateful, that the Landesgalerie (probably photography expert Martin Hochleitner is to blame) brings world class photographic exhibitions to our small, rather provincial town, population 200.000, every year.

Needless to say, this is one show I will visit, and I am very interested how much stronger the print on the wall look compared to the already very good reproductions in the book.

I do recommend the book, it is a pleasure to look at, although I wish they had chosen a different font, not Times New Roman for the text.

[David Bennett]

The Stephen Shore photo is great, in my opinion.

[charlie]

I want to go to there.

[Paul]

That Henry Wessel really knocks me off my feet.

[Mike Johnston]

Paul,
I love that guy's work.

Mike

[Chuck Kimmerle]

As I live in the spartan hinterlands and will not have the chance to see the show, I opted for the catalog (through TOP, of course). It's quite a beautifully designed book with excellent reproduction.

The more I look at Stephen Shore's work, the more I appreciate it.

[cb]

chauncey hare never gets mentioned here. why?

[Mike Johnston]

"chauncey hare never gets mentioned here. why?"

cb,
He wasn't in the original show? Neither was Bill Owens, or about ten other photographers I could name....

Mike

[Doug Brewer]

The Stephen Shore image just about knocked me out of my chair, because I took one that is startlingly similar to it back in 2007. Strangely enough, it was also done in Montana, but over in Deer Lodge rather than Kalispell.

Here it is:

[Roy]

It is perhaps a comment on the state of photography - and galleries that show photography - in the UK that this show has no scheduled venue here.

When I was starting out in the 1970s this work was hugely influential, both on me and on the many other photographers working in urban landscape in the UK around the same time - the work of Henry Wessel, Stephen Shore and Robert Adams in particular struck a major chord.

It's hard to believe that such a seminal show seems like it will not be shown over here...maybe a trip to Rotterdam beckons.

I've just ordered the book though, not available here until the end of April either!