Our pick today is a short article from the Guardian: New Topographics: photographs that find beauty in the banal.

Presidio, Texas, Feb 21st 1975 by Stephen Shore

The article introduces William Jenkins’s 1975 exhibition which “rewrote the rules of landscape photography” and serves as a brief, but useful primer for anyone discovering the ‘New Topographics’ genre for the first time.

There is a book about the ground breaking exhibition.

Apologies for the absence of POD during the latter part of last week. Normal service will now be resumed…

My selection today is a slideshow, presented by Foto 8, from Eugene Richards introducing his latest book, ‘The Blue Room’.

‘The Blue Room’ is a study of the abandoned and forgotten houses of rural America.

The photo above of the marks left by framed photos long since removed, was one I found particularly poignant and seemed to epitomise the essence of the project - the sense of loss and transient nature of life and memory.

I’m not in a position to comment on the book as a body of work as I’m yet to get a copy. However with Christmas coming up it’s on my list…

Eugene Richards.

The Blue Room.