Banal

Today's blip was inspired by the New Topographics movement. New topographics was a term coined by William Jenkins in 1975 to describe a group of American photographers including Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz whose pictures had a similar banal aesthetic, in that they were formal, mostly black and white prints of the urban landscape. Many of the photographers associated with new topographics were inspired by the man-made, selecting subject matter that was every day and matter-of-fact. Subjects included car parks, suburban housing, warehouses and industrial scenes. Here, power cables bring the city to a small rural village in Devon, and are seen against a lazy, summer sky.