New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape was an exhibition with several photographers, first put on in the mid-1970s. The images were straightforward, plain and unassuming, showing mainly buildings and other mundane aspects of the urban landscape. Many found it boring, but it created something of a movement in photography that continues today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the time of the original exhibition, I was still fairly new to photography, still self-teaching, and in the early years of my teaching (physics) career. But looking at my old negatives (two start off this gallery) I can see that I was sometimes in a “New Topographics” headspace, along with my more traditional landscape images. Here are some of my photographs, mostly recent, that I consider to be New Topographics.<\/p>\n\n\n