New Topographics : Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape

First Edition, First Printing. 48 pp. photographically illustrated book printed on coated stock, some images in color. Oblong small 4to. One of 2500 copies. Internally fine, slight odor, perhaps of old tobacco. Stiff wraps with tiny blemish to front cover and ¼ in. diameter tea-colored stain on the rear else very good. [55]
Exhibition catalog for the watershed photography exhibition at George Eastman House, featuring works by Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel, Jr. Curator William Jenkins acknowledges Ed Ruscha's formidable influence on the field of (truncated) photography in 1970s in his introduction, which also cites brief texts by Nixon, Baltz, Deal and Adams. Contains 24 black and white images from the exhibition and three images by Shore in color. A desirable copy of this scarce work. (Inventory #: 1762)