“Typology is the study of types, and a photographic typology is a suite of images or related forms, shot in a consistent, repetitive manner.”

Karl Blossfedlt (1865-1932) was a German artist and teacher who gathered photographs in close proximity to allow his art students to see the object in question from all sorts of angles, making creating the picture easier. He usually took close-up photographs of deceased plants. Having publish his work in 1929, fellow artists and photographers developed on the idea of typologies in photographs.

Typologies are a great technique for developing ideas closely and in detail as the close proximity of the photos forces you to see all angles of photographs. By utilizing the technique of typologies I can gather a series of photographs together in an attempt to alter the way the average man views nature around us, hopefully understanding the true beauty that the world posses.

Here are some examples of flower typologies…