Photos

Karl Blossfeldt 

Karl Blossfeldt Created a series of images which were close ups of plants against a plan background. The images were created to use as resources for his students to help them understand how to shade and the important of shading when drawing. The book was revived  very well and is considered one of the most successful photo books of the 20th century.

A drawings of one of Blossfeldt’s images.

Many modern designs and buildings have been inspired by Blossfeldt’s work. The fits in the theme in the sense that many of the images may appear very similar but you have to look very closely to see the difference in the images.

Typologies  (Bernd and Hilla Becher)

The German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, who began working together in 1959 and married in 1961, are best known for their “typologies” which are grids of black-and-white photos of variant examples of a single type of industrial structure. The couple traveled around Germany taking images of the industrial building from the same distance and angle so when the images where arranged they all looked very similar.  At first glance someone may mistake the images for being the same image when in-matter-of-fact they are all different images.

The work of the Becher’s inspired a whole movement of typologies from other photographers.