For my typologies photoshoot, I wanted to create a typology with a focus on the New Topographics.

Contact Sheet

Selection Process

Best Photos

I picked images which were all similar so they would look well when presented as a group. I aimed for pictures which were objective and documentary-like rather than subjective images.

Initial Presentation Ideas

Each image works well with one another as they are all different German bunkers/architecture leftover from WW2, however the sky and sea in some of them are taking away from the objective feel that I was going for so I will likely turn these parts into negative space in editing.

Each image works well as one group since they each feature lots of signage and industrial architecture, which creates an uneasy/restricted environment as well as clearly contrasting with romanticism (reinforcing them as New Topographics style images). However, the sky again adds more of a subjective element to each image which takes away from my intentions so I will make the sky more of a negative space when editing to elaborate on the sense of objectiveness.

Editing

Each image will be in a 1×1 square resolution as well as being black and white (similar to work like ‘Pitheads’ from Hilla and Bernd Becher).

Final Presentation

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Virtual Gallery

Evaluation + Comparison Against Artist Reference

Overall, I think I managed to take a set of effective images and present them in two different typologies where both of them have different themes and different sets of images.

My New Topographics Typology vs Pitheads by Hilla and Bernd Becher

My typology contains 4 images of different scenes in and around La Collete and all of them group together effectively – however, I think ‘Pitheads’ is better visually and conceptually since visually all images have been taken of the exact thing at the same deadpan angle which makes each individual image more significant when presented as a group, in contrast to mine where each image is a completely different scene and so they would work well on their own rather than displayed together.