The expertly curated exhibition “Locating Landscape: New Strategies, New Technologies” offers an important contemporary perspective and anchor on the revival of 1975 “New Topographics” show concurrently on view at LACMA. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine the LACMA show without these photographs taken by the “New Topographics” progeny (more than half of the exhibited photographers actually studied with the original artists). By using significant examples of deeper, conceptual practices, beyond an homage we have here a surprising survey of how our sense of location is inflected by today’s technological tools. That is, no matter how specifically we know where we are, we are as lost as ever.
