New Topography (?)

Sand Island State Recreation Area

American Wall

American Parking Lot

American Freeway



"The pictures were stripped of any artistic frills and reduced to an essentially topographic state, conveying substantial amounts of visual information but eschewing entirely the aspects of beauty, emotion and opinion,." "[...] rigorous purity, deadpan humor and a casual disregard for the importance of the images." "[...] stylistic anonymity [...]"
-William Jenkins, from the Introduction to the catalogue for the exhibit he curated entitled "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape", 1975