“The New Topographics: Photographs of Man-Altered Landscape” was an exhibition that started a movement in American landscape photography. It was a response to environmentalism and the idealised landscape photography that praised the natural and elemental. The artists were inclined to lose the objective of romanticism and artistic beauty. Photographers such as Robert Adams and Stephen Shore found a different understanding of the natural world that showed landscapes and human activity as interconnected. Plain documentation of human presence in nature as a part of it.