New Topographics
ニュー・トポグラフィックス / 1975– / Style / Photography Movements
Records, coolly, the landscapes humans have altered — suburbs, tract sites, industrial parks — instead of grand nature.
Empty suburbs / Frontality / Dry color / Man-altered landscape
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs space and gaze
- Material
- Verify materials specific to region, period and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of region, politics, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Robert Adams / Lewis Baltz / Bernd and Hilla Becher