| 1974 | North America • USA
| Robert Adams publishes The New West. |
| 1974 | North America • USA
| Lewis Baltz publishes The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California.
The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California
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| 1974 | North America • USA
| Ralph Eugene Meatyard publishes The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard: The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater and Other Figurative Photographs
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| 1975 | North America • USA
| W. Eugene Smith publishes Minamata.
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| 1975 | North America • USA
| Stanley Forman (Boston Herald American) photographs nineteen year-old Diana Bryant and three-year-old Tiara Jones falling from a fire escape during an apartment fire. (22 July 1975) |
| 1975 | North America • USA
| The influential exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape curated by William Jenkins opens at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. The works of Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel Jr. all shifted the way that landscape photography is conceived to preserve and record the actual landscape of buildings, suburbs and urbanization rather than pristine views. |
| 1976 | North America • USA
| William Eggleston publishes William Eggleston's Guide.
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| 1976 | North America • USA
| Lee Friedlander publishes The American Monument.
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| 1976 | North America • USA
| Susan Meiselas publishes Carnival Strippers.
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| 1976 | North America • USA
| The Photographic Resource Center (PRC) opens at Boston University. |
| 1976 | North America • USA
| William Eggleston has a landmark show of his color photographs at MOMA. This events marks the curatorial acceptance of color photography as art in North America. Work by other color photographers including Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld increasingly gains recognition. |
| 1977 | North America • USA
| Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan publish Evidence.
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| 1977 | Europe • UK
| The Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain is formed by a group of collectors interested in meeting to discuss early equipment. |
| 1977 | North America • USA
| Susan Sontag publishes On Photography.
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| 1977 | Europe • UK
| The Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain is founded and shortens its name to The Magic Lantern Society in 1991. |
| 1977 | North America • USA
| Grant Romer organizes an exhibition of Contemporary Daguerreotypes at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. This initial exhibition is one of the key events that encourages the resurgence of experimentation into early photographic techniques and processes. |
| 1979 | North America • USA
| Lisette Model publishes Lisette Model.
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| 1979 | Europe • UK
| Peter Mitchell has the exhibition "A New Refutation of Viking 4 Space Mission" at the Impressions Gallery in York showing his color photographs of Leeds (UK). This is one of the first showings of color photography in a UK gallery. |
