Firstly topographic refers to a man-altered landscape image, and was introduced around 1975, as a way of connecting the view of nature and human, rather than disconnecting nature and human, which is what the famous Ansel Adams done with his landscape images. Rather putting in most of the appreciation to landscape or human design, it a balance of both, in a setting in which it works, one good example is Robert Adams:

It includes all the visual elements of what a good image needs as well as the concept of landscape and human industrialism. Its setting is very important and pretty cool really, like the hill and a single tree in the middle of the image creating an effect of slight connection, acknowledging the isolation of the tree but how it is still apart of the suburb in this image. They also use a good range of shapes and lines in their imagery, for example the obvious building which looks rectangular with lines running along it shows that this is a possibly wealthy area.

There can be many view of the New Topography. others could perceive these images as helping to the environment, as a way of showing people the impact of humans on nature.

images like this represent topographic better because it shows the structured placing of houses, with a small mountain in the background. This image was aimed towards the American West.

New topographies isn’t just Land and Human built stuff, it includes the traces of what humans have left behind or still slightly using. This picture shows a street with what looks to be some local shops, it seems pretty deserted especially when you consider other areas like New York. It lacks population and care. Although this image is created well, it is to show people what other people carelessly leave behind, or put minimum effort towards.