Contemporary Art Photography: Human Altered Landscape

This one-hour talk reviews the exciting work of documentary-style contemporary photographers who have focused their practice on our changing American and global landscape. Our point of departure will be the 1975/76 watershed exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape which featured works by Robert Adams, Stephen Shore and Hilla and Bernd Becher amongst others. We will also explore the incredible work of Edward Burtynsky, Robert Polidori, Richard Misrach, and several others