What is it?

New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape was a ground-breaking exhibition of contemporary landscape photography held at the George Eastman House’s International Museum of Photography from October 1975 to February 1976. . A turning point in the history of photography, the 1975 exhibition New Topographics signaled a radical shift away from traditional depictions of landscape.

What was the new topographic a reaction to?

An exhibition at the International Museum of Photography in Rochester, New York featuring these photographers also revealed the growing unease about how the natural landscape was being eroded by industrial development. Examples of these are buildings, houses, roads and urban areas.

Robert Adams

This image is from Robert Adams of a woman inside her house in the suburbs. The use of the rectangles/frames around the woman creates a vocal point of the woman. The dark grey and black tones give a lonely and sad feeling to the image. It creates an image of a house wife at home on her own, in America. The frames around the woman, creates a zoom in effect. This means the focal point is the woman, the photographer has done this by using the rule of thirds.

Series of his Images