The New Topographics is a term used to describe a group of American photographers, including Robert Adams, whose pictures had a similar banal aesthetic as they were formal, black and white prints of urban landscape. Many of the photographers involved were inspired by the man-made. They used subjects such as parking lots, suburban housing and warehouses. The New Topographics had a major influence on later photographers including the artists that became known as the Dusseldorf School of Photography. The New Topographics were a reaction to mans impact on land and the Romanticism movement.