New Topographics is a style of urban landscape photography that emerged in the United States during the mid-1970s. The genre is characterized by a detached, straight photography approach to human-altered landscapes. Photographers in this movement reject the romantic and sublime qualities of earlier landscape photography, such as that of Ansel Adams. Instead, Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel, focus on the commonplace, banal, and industrial features of the contemporary environment.