Example #1: BikesThis example of a typology really caught my eye. I like how the bikes all show different views on their life style and durability, how they get used, broken and just thrown away. It makes you feel affectionate to the bike and you kind of want to help it. The point to this typology helps to show what kind of bikes people abandon and in what condition they are then left in. These images
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August Sander - The Face of Our Time
One of the strategies photographers have used to explore the theme of contrast is to create a series of images of the same or similar people and/or objects. This approach is often referred to as a typological study - a classification of subjects according to type. One of the first such studies was by the German photographer August Sander, whose epic project 'People of the 20th Century' (40,000 negatives were destroyed during WWII and in a fire) produced volume of portraits entitled 'The Face of Our Time' in 1929. Sander categorized his portraits according to their profession and social class.
Sander's methodical, disciplined approach to photographing the world has had an enormous influence on later photographers, notably Bernd and Hilla Becher. This approach can also be seen in the work of their students Thomas Struth andThomas Ruff. Other photographers who have explored this idea include Stephen Shore, Gillian Wearing, Nicholas Nixon, Martina Mullaney and Ari Versluis. |
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My response
Evaluation
My typology came out exactly the way I wanted it to as I used a tripod and a ruler to make sure all the bottles were roughly in the same position. The effect of this made all of the bottles look the same however they all had different dents and marks to separate them from being the same. I decided to create a typology on water bottles simply because I had so many, the past week I saved all of the bottles after drinking water and I felt like they told a story.