Urban Landscape

Urban Landscapes are landscape shots capturing the cities or towns. They often are shot in a way that shows a meaning or trying to tell the people something. This form of photography is a very wide genre. Urban landscape can include pictures of skyscrapers, high streets or even roads. Urban landscapes can also include ‘normal’ landscapes with bits of urban building or industrial things in it. With this type of photography, both closeups and wide shots can be taken, with people or without people.Often Urban Landscapes photography can be used to show the environmental impact of the industrialisation and huge amount of structures built or being built.

Photographer Lewis Bush took a series of black and white photographs that could be interpreted to be showing the negative impact of the development of building in cities. This series was called Metropole. They are in black and whit and have a lot of contrast.

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