The New Topographics

‘New Topographics’ was a term used by William Jenkins in 1970 to refer to a group of photographers whose urban landscape photos all had similar formal and black and white aesthetics. They were known for having an ‘anti-aesthetic’ as they took formal photos of America’s landscape as it was without romanticising it. This was as they wanted to shift away from traditional landscape photography and draw attention towards how natural landscapes were being overtaken by manmade structures.

Some of their work includes: