The 1975 photo exhibition “New Topograhics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape” at George Eastman House was highly influential and changed the way a generation of
photographic artists approached landscape photography. Among its featured artists were Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Frank Goehlke and Stephen Shore, who decisively replaced
the traditional sentimentality of landscape with an often brutal criticality, especially in the face of banal human interventions and degradations of the natural environment.
Massimo Cristaldi, Sandro Scalia and Blaise Tobia bring a similar critical eye to their documentation of the Sicilian landscape – especially that of the new suburbs of the major cities.
This is a Sicily very different from that of the tourism industry.
