Seismic Shift will illuminate the far-reaching consequences of this revolution in landscape photography by tracing its regional history. Beginning with Ansel Adams and Edward Weston—and with the 1946 arrival in San Francisco of Minor White, who would extend the Weston-Adams tradition by transforming it—the exhibition will follow the history in the 1950s and 1960s through the careers of Wynn Bullock, Brett Weston and many others. Then it will examine how the 1970s work of Baltz, Deal, Robert Adams and Henry Wessel—the Western contingent of the New Topographics—created a shock of recognition, an awakening to mutual ideas different from those of their predecessors, that a younger generation of photographers shared. Portfolios of the period, one done by a class Baltz taught at UCR, will demonstrate the immediacy that these ideas had.
"Aftershocks : The Western Landscape Today"
The influence of the Seismic Shift in landscape photography during the 1970s that the exhibition on the first and second floors reveals has continued into the present. Aftershocks will up-date the historical record by looking at the work of six photographers: three who are in Seismic Shift—Joe Deal, Laurie Brown and John Divola—and three whose work has emerged since the 1980s—Mark Ruwedel, Michael Light and Brad Moore.
October 1, 2011 - Dec. 31, 2011
Opening reception October 1, 2011 6 - 9 pm
UCR / California Museum of Photography
3824 Main St
Riverside, CA 92501, USA
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