New Topographic’s was a term created by William Jenkins in 1975 to describe a group of American photographers (such as Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz) whose photographs had a similar banal aesthetic, in that they were formal, mostly black and white prints of the urban landscape

Many of the photographers associated with new Topographic’s such as Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Nicholas Nixon and Bernd and Hiller Becher, were influenced by the man-made, selecting subject matter that was matter-of-fact. Parking lots, suburban housing and warehouses were all focused upon in their photography.

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