new topographics

new topographical photography show the beauty in the mundane, reflection of the increasingly suburbanised world. reaction to the tyranny of idealised landscape photography that elevated the natural and the elemental.

 Robert Adams, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel Jr are all the people that started the new topographical movement. 1975 exhibition New Topographic signalled a radical shift away from traditional landscapes.

Robert Adams -Mobile-Homes-1973

This image was taken by Robert Adam and I like the juxtaposition between the foreground of the man made harsh white boxes and the background of the rolling hills with smooth organic shapes along the horizon. image is like a before and after because it shows the earth as it was the unnatural shapes humans have produced that litter the earth.

John Schott: Mobile Homes 1975-1976

This image has a wider angle which shows more of the organic environment which makes the sea of white boxes look out of place. this images shows the natural foreground with a man made midground and a natural background which greatest a sandwiching affect which makes the mobile homes look even more out of place.

This is my mood bored of different new topographic images that will inspire me to take images around Jersey

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