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Henry Wessel's exhibition will consist of vintage photographs shot in the 1960s and 70s while driving in the West and Southwest of the country. Simultaneously, Wessel will be included in "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape", at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 17 through October 3. This museum show is a re-staging of the pivotal 1975 exhibition which documented a radical shift within the traditional depictions of landscape photography. Wessel's continued interest in the depiction of the interface between man and the land contributed to the photo genre that defined New Topographics and influenced the next generation of both European and US photographers.

Mr. Wessel was born in Teaneck, NJ; graduated from Pennsylvania State University and The Visual Studies Workshop at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has been a professor at the San Francisco Art Institute for thirty years. He is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts and two Guggenheim fellowships. His work is included in many museum collections.