Whose Topographics?
RACE AND THE POSTWAR BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN U.S. LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY - DRAFT
"[...] it does not unduly stretch the imagination to see all photographs as maps of a sort."
William Jenkins, New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape , 1975
New Topographics
"The people of Pittsburgh should never forget this struggling congregation."
B. H. Logan, "Bye! Bye! 'Mother Bethel,'" Pittsburgh Courier, July 27, 1957
Charles "Teenie" Harris, Ruins of buildings in Lower Hill District, with view of downtown Pittsburgh in background, circa 1950-1970. Carnegie Museum of Art .
Charles "Teenie" Harris, Demolition of Bethel AME Church with crane on left, Wylie Avenue and Elm Street, Hill District, July 24, 1957. Carnegie Museum of Art.
Charles "Teenie" Harris, Crane removing brush from Civic Arena site, Lower Hill District, c. 1960-61. Carnegie Museum of Art.
Charles "Teenie" Harris, Field with truck with crane and ladder, with police man wearing uniform, and bush in background, c. 1950-70. Carnegie Museum of Art.
Charles "Teenie" Harris, Bonfire or bush on fire in field, with man taking picture and people scattered around in background, c. 1950-70. Carnegie Museum of Art.
Charles "Teenie" Harris, Two cranes at construction site of Washington Plaza Towers, with Civic Arena and Downtown in background, and cars parked in street in foreground, December 1962. Carnegie Museum of Art .
Left: George Barbour, "Word on Lower Hill: 'Say Goodbye Next Spring' Residents, Old Landmarks Must Bow to Progress," Pittsburgh Courier, August 7, 1955 ||| Right: B. H. Logan, "Bye! Bye! 'Mother Bethel,'" Pittsburgh Courier, July 27, 1957.
Charles "Teenie" Harris, One story houses with Insulbrick siding, future homes of white only veterans in Malmade Village, Clairton, Pennsylvania, January 1947. Carnegie Museum of Art.
Charles "Teenie" Harris, One story houses with Insulbrick siding, future homes of white only veterans in Malmade Village, with Colonial Village in background, Clairton, Pennsylvania, January 1947. Carnegie Museum of Art .
Charles "Teenie" Harris, One story houses with Insulbrick siding, future homes of white only veterans in Malmade Village, with car hood in foreground, Clairton, Pennsylvania, January 1947. Carnegie Museum of Art.
Robert Hughey, The Pittsburgh Courier, August 2, 1941
