Concrete Romance, 1976

10/13/2026
By NeuraScene
gallery1970sNew Topographics Romance
A black and white 1970s photo of a bald man in a suede jacket holding a small bouquet, standing centered in an empty concrete underpass.

A man waits in the dead center of a stark, newly poured concrete underpass, a tiny bouquet in hand. Photographed on large-format Kodak Tri-X, the image captures the banal symmetry of man-altered landscapes typical of New Topographics. The naturalistic overcast light yields an expansive midtone range, rendering his suede coat and the concrete walls with clinical yet romantic clarity.

From NeuraScene's ontology

  • Era: 1970s
  • Genre: New Topographics Romance (photograph)
  • Captured on: View Cameras, Schneider Symmar-S, Kodak Tri-X Pan Professional
  • Wardrobe: Suede
  • Look: Lighting style: Naturalistic · Aesthetic: Vintage · Composition: Symmetrical · Contrast: normal

Each image in this gallery is set in a world drawn at random from NeuraScene's ontology of eras and genres, and made with the cameras, lenses, film stocks and artistic media that genre really used.

Curatorial Notes & Visual Direction
Era / Style
1970s
Genre
New Topographics Romance
Visual Medium
Photograph
Aspect Ratio
4:5 (1856×2304)

A man waits in the dead center of a stark, newly poured concrete underpass, a tiny bouquet in hand. Photographed on large-format Kodak Tri-X, the image captures the banal symmetry of man-altered landscapes typical of New Topographics. The naturalistic overcast light yields an expansive midtone range, rendering his suede coat and the concrete walls with clinical yet romantic clarity.

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