>>3770930>No, i don't know what you mean, that's how nature was in the wild land back then and still today in some regions.Not that anon.
But from my understanding is the notion that landscape photographers go out of their way to show the "real wilderness" which exists 100 miles away from anthropocentric areas. While completely ignoring the landscapes that they themselves live in which were at some point also the "real wilderness". I don't know much about America but Robert just documented that rapid change that happened in the country with in the boarder context of the "untouched wild western landscape" which traditional photographers romanticise and at the same time ignoring the ecological changes.
Robert Adams(like the rest of New Topographics crew) was critiquing the wider landscape faux romantic tradition which started with Ansel.
>Indeed, such specific and even famous photographs as Ansel Adams’s Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico (1944) are invoked by Robert Adams’s Fort Collins, Colorado (1976) >>3770874 some 30 years later in order to show us suburban habitation illuminated by that same moon—a parking lot that holds surrounding undeveloped land at bay while importing a small, cordoned bit of nature within itself for decorative and humanistic purposes. Robert Adams’s photograph even slyly suggests that the moon is the source for what in fact turns out to be artificial illumination by a nearby streetlamp.https://americansuburbx.com/2012/05/new-topographics-landscape-and-the-west-irony-and-critique-in-new-topographic-photography-2005.html 