Let’s look at an influential exhibition and how its trajectory helped shape photography from the 1970s through to today: “New Topographics: Pictures of Man-Altered Landscapes,” shown in 1975 in the George Eastman House’s International Museum of Photography in Rochester, New York. We’ll follow the course of the show’s lasting impact on aesthetic and conceptual approaches to landscape photography, as well as look at the careers of some of its protagonists and the art scene from which these images emerged. Photobooks we’ll explore include Lewis Baltz’s The Prototype Works, Bernd and Hilla Becher’s Basic Forms, and Henry Wessel‘s collection of three bodies of work titled Traffic/Sunset Park/Continental Divide. “New Topographics” was also a significant influence on Stefan’s own work, so he will close by showing some images from his newly published book Irgendwo (“Anywhere”), released just two weeks ago.