TYPOLOGIES

What is typology?

Typology is a single photograph or, more commonly, a body of photographic work that share a high level of consistency. This consistency is usually found within the subjects; environment, photographic process, and presentation or direction of the subject.

You are able to create your own typology work by grouping photographs into different types on the basis of their common features, with consideration of how each unique individual represents a particular pattern of features.

Typology was created by the German artists ‘Bernd and Hilla Becher’, who began working together in 1959 and married in 1961. They are best known for their typologies, often consisting of grids of black-and-white photographs of variant examples of a single type of industrial structure.

Examples of Typology