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Nicholas NixonNew Topographics

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Nicholas NixonNew Topographics

These images of the vast cityscapes of New York and Boston, at once both ordered and chaotic, were part of one of the most influential exhibitions of the seventies, New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape at the George Eastman House.

Black-and-white photograph of a city intersection in winter with a rooftop garage and smokestacks — Nicholas Nixon, View of Turnpike Entrance, Boston, 1976

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a city skyline with high rise buildings scattered throughout the landscape — Nicholas Nixon, View of Boston from Commercial Wharf, 1975

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a highway and surrounding neighborhoods at midday under a clear sky — Nicholas Nixon, Southeast View of the Fenway Area, Boston, 1975

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a Greco-Roman style building with a domed roof amid modern city high rise buildings — Nicholas Nixon, View of Mother Church and Christian Science Center, Boston, 1975

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a curved building amid taller rectangular high-rise buildings — Nicholas Nixon, View of Center Plaza and Suffolk County Courthouse, Boston, 1975

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a large church set behind an open plaza amid modern city high-rise buildings — Nicholas Nixon, View of Copley Square, Boston, 1974

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a low rise industrial neighborhood and a wharf on a river — Nicholas Nixon, View of North End and Wharf Area, Boston, 1975

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a highway bridge crossing a river next to a Coca-Cola plant — Nicholas Nixon, View of Cambridge from Memorial Drive, Cambridge, 1975

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph at the corner of a low square building with rounded arch windows — Nicholas Nixon, View of Boston Public Library, 1974

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a rectangular glass high-rise building rising above surrounding city buildings — Nicholas Nixon, View north from the Prudential Building, Boston, 1975

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a city intersection in winter with a rooftop garage and smokestacks

Nicholas NixonView of Turnpike Entrance, Boston

1976

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

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Black-and-white photograph of a city skyline with high rise buildings scattered throughout the landscape

Nicholas NixonView of Boston from Commercial Wharf

1975

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

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Black-and-white photograph of a highway and surrounding neighborhoods at midday under a clear sky

Nicholas NixonSoutheast View of the Fenway Area, Boston

1975

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

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Black-and-white photograph of a Greco-Roman style building with a domed roof amid modern city high rise buildings

Nicholas NixonView of Mother Church and Christian Science Center, Boston

1975

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

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Black-and-white photograph of a curved building amid taller rectangular high-rise buildings

Nicholas NixonView of Center Plaza and Suffolk County Courthouse, Boston

1975

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

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Black-and-white photograph of a large church set behind an open plaza amid modern city high-rise buildings

Nicholas NixonView of Copley Square, Boston

1974

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

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Black-and-white photograph of a low rise industrial neighborhood and a wharf on a river

Nicholas NixonView of North End and Wharf Area, Boston

1975

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

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Black-and-white photograph of a highway bridge crossing a river next to a Coca-Cola plant

Nicholas NixonView of Cambridge from Memorial Drive, Cambridge

1975

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

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Black-and-white photograph at the corner of a low square building with rounded arch windows

Nicholas NixonView of Boston Public Library

1974

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

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Black-and-white photograph of a rectangular glass high-rise building rising above surrounding city buildings

Nicholas NixonView north from the Prudential Building, Boston

1975

gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

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