Reframing the new topographics

We cite from the COVER:
"1975 is a pivotal year in the history of photography. The exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape crystallized a new view of the American West, one that denaturalized the sublime "American" vistas of Ansel Adams, replacing that pristine and timeless "America" with a landscape inundated with banal symbols of humanity. Organized by William Jenkins for the George Eastman House, New Topographics showcased photographs by Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, and others who epitomized a new artistic interest in the ways in which the past is continually being unmade by human development. Their pictures, illustrating the vernacular, human-made landscape, punctured the myth of the pristine, wild American landscape, and definitively changed the course of landscape photography."
"Reframing the New Topographies offers the first substantive analysis of this context and the continuing influence of an exhibition that not only reshaped the look and subject matter of landscape photography, but also foreshadowed environmentalism's expansion beyond the mere preservation of wilderness. The essays in this anthology add important dimension to a growing chorus of scholars of visual culture who are engaging with the complex social and political contexts of landscape representation."
*
CONTENTS:
1. Same as it ever was : rereading new topographics / Toby Jurovics --
2. Beyond wilderness : Robert Adams, the new topographics, and the aesthetics of ecological citizenship / Finis Dunaway --
3. "Systems everywhere" : new topographics and art of the 1970s / Greg Foster-Rice --
4. "Real estate opportunities" : commercial photography as conceptual source in new topographics / Britt Salvesen --
5. Deadpan geometries : postwar aerial photographs and the American landscape / Kim Sichel --
6. Images of thought : Antonioni, Godard, and the new topographics movement / Larisa Dryansky --
7. Disconsolate and inconsolable : neutrality and new topographics / Mark Rawlinson --
8. New topographics now : simulated landscape and degraded utopia / Christopher Burnett.
*
For facsimile view of Table of Contents please click URL