Taryn Simon
August Sander
Typology is the art of taking a set of images of the same theme/idea but of different items i.e.: women with brown hair. The images would be the same lighting, same composition, same picture but different subject.
Editing:
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TYPOLOGIES WORK
During this project I have at several artists. Most prominently August Sander, Taryn Simon and Bernd and Hilla Becher. August Sander set about to take pictures of every type of person that lived in Germany when he did. He took pictures of people of all ages, races, religions and occupations. Simon took pictures of whole family lines, she would leave blank spaces for dead relatives. She would take pictures of a family of people who were considered legally dead - due to a feud in the family and they would declare that person as legally dead so that they could get an extra inheritance. This person would then be considered dead, but what Simon wanted to do was to show that Photography is the best proof of life. Bernd and Hilla Becher would take industrial typologies. They were the first to do this style of work. They wanted to take pictures of all the water tanks in the places that they visited and placed them in series, this would be called a typology. I think that from all of their work I have learnt about different ways to order my work, and that there are many ways of doing it. I have also learnt about the forms that a typology works best in. And also that the composition similarity is really important to make the group feel like a typology and not just a set of random images.In my work the themes that I explored were CAMERAS. I decided to take a picture of -almost- all the cameras in my house. I thought about a way of getting all the images to look the same and yet with, sometimes very, different subjects. My first idea was to do comic books, but I found that the flatness of them created more plain images that didn't excite me in the way that the differences in my cameras did. So I changed it to cameras.
I experimented with different backgrounds at first for the pictures, I needed a background that would bounce off enough light and would also stay the same with each picture and with possibly change of location. I decided to create a box, then I coated the inside with this sheet music that can be seen in the pictures. They are all overlapping and they are all in different directions. I put my camera on a tripod so that all the pictures would have the same composition and focusing. I think that on the whole the project worked well. I think that the colour contrast makes the cameras stand out. I think that I would work more on the composition and framing of all of the pictures beforehand next time.
I experimented with different backgrounds at first for the pictures, I needed a background that would bounce off enough light and would also stay the same with each picture and with possibly change of location. I decided to create a box, then I coated the inside with this sheet music that can be seen in the pictures. They are all overlapping and they are all in different directions. I put my camera on a tripod so that all the pictures would have the same composition and focusing. I think that on the whole the project worked well. I think that the colour contrast makes the cameras stand out. I think that I would work more on the composition and framing of all of the pictures beforehand next time.