The symbol is still under research. We have not yet found sources reliable enough to say which object recurs in this photographer’s work, so a plain camera stands in rather than a forced choice.
Essays on photographers, dogs, money and landscape.
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The American West after the developers arrived: tract houses, gas stations and new roads under a hard, bright sky. The New West (1974) and the New Topographics exhibition (1975) made the altered landscape a subject in its own right, described with grief and restraint.
Colour
Black and white, pale.
Composition
Level, open, the horizon low; houses small against the land.
Light
Harsh high-altitude sun, washed-out skies.
Tone
High key, light greys, little black.
Texture
Sharp, fine.
Mood
Quiet, elegiac, plain.
Recurring motifs
A new tract house under a white sky
A suburban street with one young tree
A plain scarred by roads, seen from a low hill
Representative works
The New West (1974)
What We Bought (1995)
Summer Nights (1985)
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