Quotidian: Of everyday occurrence, especially when considered mundane.
Ideology: The ideas and manner of thinking within a group or an indevidual.
Aesthetics: A set of principals concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, especially within art.
Conventional: Something that is generally acceptable with a disregard for indeviduallity and sincerety.
Photographs of a man-altered landscape: The subtitle of the 1977 exhibition held at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York in which William Jenkins first coined the term 'New topographics' to describe the new modernist movement.
Romanticisation: To portray something in a romantic manner and add sentimental value
Brutal landscapes: A term often used to describe a harsh-looking landscape, one which is depicted in a more realist style in comparison to the typically romantic style.
Realism: A more bare, 'warts and all' and sometimes pessimistic approach to the depiction of something.
Punctum: A latin word used by Roland Barthes to describe a 'sharp prick' within a photograph that is unavoidably interesting:
1. A small, distinct point.
2. The opening of a tear duct
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