What was so impressive about photos of tract
housing and abandoned buildings? Maybe "impressive" is the wrong word
— but it was unusual
that they were considered landscapes. Unlike their predecessors, these new
"topographic" photographers were less concerned with portraying an
ideal image of nature and were more interested in showing plainly how man has
altered it. Their photos were descriptive, unemotional and simple — a fusion,
almost, of traditional landscape and social documentary photography, with man
as the focus, but out of the picture.
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