A recent survey of contemporary Australian photography since the 1980s by Anne Marsh indicates that very little photography is being done to represent the changes to our capitol cities long the lines of Eugène Atget in Paris, Bernice Abbott in New York, or Thomas Struth in Berlin.
The subject is history and time:--the object photographed is not just a play of forms, as these are countered by the forces of history that traverse it. Form is a "sedimentation of content", as Adorno puts it in Aesthetic Theory. Content is all that happens in the dimension of time.