Rather than being merely reactionary, these will most often deny the radical implications of the work.of their predeces- sors, perhaps in favor of a more conciliatory approach to the continuing viability of the genres, and they might opt for more moderate claims concerning the social consequences of artistic strategies at large. Such a reversal, with regard to the radical implications of Pop Art and Con- ceptual art, occurred in the early 1980s in the work of numerous pho- n tographic artists, among them Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth. They positioned themselves not only within the trajectory of their teachers, Bernd and Hilla Becher, but also within the broader legacies of Neue Sachlichkeit photography, in particular that of August Sander.