Begins shooting landscapes that eventually appear in his 1980 monograph From the Missouri West. His work is included in the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, at the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. View exhibition installation

“The pictures prove nothing. One has already seen in one’s own life the pictures’ justification, Form, or one hasn’t. The pictures are just reminders.” —From a lecture given at the International Center of Photography, New York, 1977 Publishes denver.

Photographs in Wyoming, Utah, California, and Colorado for the AT&T centenary project to document the American landscape. From the Missouri West Ludlow “West of Grand Junction, Colorado—October: Alone down a silent road in sagebrush country this morning. Hot; no sound of wind or bird or insect. There had earlier been an oil company helicopter, its beating noise suddenly audible behind rimrock to the east; it came low and fast, and was almost at once gone over a hill to the west. Then the silence returned, absolute.” —From notes made in 1978 His work is included in the exhibition Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.