"Explicitly rejecting modernism's pretensions to transcendence and its glorification of heroic originality - perpetuated, ironically, through formula and replication - they turned to the "ugly and ordinary," where genuine diversity and contemporary aspirations found expression...
"[the photographs] are not merely ordinary but represent ordinariness symbolically and stylistically; they are enriching as well, because they add a layer of literary meaning."
Britt Salvesen, New Topographics, 2009
