Robert Adams is a new topographic photographer he was born on the 1 January 1885 and died in November 13 1967 he was a Scottish photographer and a has wrote 38 books and won  two Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Hasselblad Award.

what is new topographic is basically instead of taking pictures of wild life photographers like Robert Adams, they would take pictures of buildings and man made objects