After the Romanticism movement, photographers soon tuned to “The New Topographics”, here photographers focused on buildings and anything that have been altered by man.
This new movement started in 1920s/ 1930s, in central Europe. Artists like El Lisstzky were the first to change from taking photos based on Romanticism, Here artists focused on the limited ranges of colours and geometric shapes. However the main focus was to find the beauty in our man altered landscapes.
Later on in 1975 which marked a further landmark in photography, an exhibition called “The New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscapes” became a turning point in the history of photography. This took photographers like Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel. They then displayed 150 photos showing how “The New World” isn’t as bad as it seems and there is beauty behind it.
