To support the catalogue and international presentation of the 2009–2011 exhibition New Topographics, which reconstructs the landmark 1975 exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape. The 2009–2011 exhibition assesses the aims of the original exhibition, examines the international implications of an American impulse in photography since that time, and considers its precursor’s formidable influence on young photographers today.