>>3632110>I've actually always wondered about balancing how much you detach a shot from things that could date them while not completely removing it from being recognizably datedLike I said in another comment...New Topographics was never about timelessness. It was completely about contemporary time and documenting the quite new post-industrial landscapes of Europe and the United States through an aesthetic of detached removal.
In 2020...the US has been post industrial for nearly 50 years. It's not a novel thing to document. It's two generation's worth of time. If one wanted to follow the train of thought of New Topographic in present times the focus would be on documenting contemporary changes in the landscape (not literally the landscape...but culture/society...the topography of these things).
Jerking off over desolate corners of buildings and cars with a cover thrown over them is basic as hell and repeating what people were doing 50+ years ago to document the changing of society.
