Real estate sign. Dusk. Colorado Springs, Colorado,

1970

<p> When Adams returned home to Colorado Springs from California in the mid-1960s, he was struck by the number of housing developments and highways that occupied the region’s formerly scenic vistas. He began photographing the area of the Front Range, capturing the impact of industrialization, consumerism, and a postwar housing boom on the natural environment. In this photograph, the arrow on the real estate sign cuts across the skyline, an indication of the development that would soon consume the still-open landscape. Adams’s photographs of expansion gained widespread attention in the exhibition <em>New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape </em>at the George Eastman House in 1975. </p>