What is a typology?
Typology is the study of types, however in photography a typology is a series of images, in which the photographer has taken many of the same genre of object (buildings, pencils etc), using roughly the same composition for each one creating that scenes of repetition about them.
Bernd And Hilla Becher
Both these Photographers were German based, and were commissioned by the government to produces typologies of specific types of buildings, as seen below.
These Photographers would go around the country taking the same composition of certain objects, which when one was taken would not look that impressive, but rather when hundreds were taken precisely from the same distance, and combined together, it creates an almost artistic creation
In response to this I decided I would walk around my home area and try to incorporate this style into my images, I chose the themes around car lights, windows with chimneys, and doors. These were some of my results:
I decided that the car topology sheets worked the best, due to the contrast between the lights and the bonnets of the car which came in different shapes.
These Photographers would go around the country taking the same composition of certain objects, which when one was taken would not look that impressive, but rather when hundreds were taken precisely from the same distance, and combined together, it creates an almost artistic creation In response to this I decided I would walk around my home area and try to incorporate this style into my images, I chose the themes around car lights, windows with chimneys, and doors. These were some of my results:
I decided that the car topology sheets worked the best, due to the contrast between the lights and the bonnets of the car which came in different shapes.
