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New Topographics Landscape

New Topographics photographers utilized document style image making " to provide a format for the emerging ecological consciousness" which was evolving in the 70's.

Indeed many interviews show "they were not environmentalists, but rather they simply were artists making pictures in places that interested them."

Source: New topographics photography, a man altered landscape 1975.

 

However through their lens we become astutely aware of humanity's and our own personal effects upon nature.

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Uploaded on July 21, 2025
Taken on April 23, 2025