Source from google.
Pinterest Typology Board
Relating to typologies, while creating a board, i would like to group them together which focuses on the theme of typologies. The types of group may be humans, nature and man made objects.
August Sander - Face of Our Time
While looking at Sanders typologies, i wonder why they have been grouped in a certain way. This may lead to social status, for example, lower class people in one image and less developed people in one image. From Sanders typologies, he focuses more on people and allowing the viewer to focus on their expressions on their faces. Allowing more than one person to be in a typology allows the viewer to compare and contrast their expressions, By comparing and contrasting this allows the viewer to figure out what was actually happening in scene at that moment, In the image with little girl and the boy, they both have different expressions on their face, which may be confusing to the viewer on what was actually happening at that moment.
Typologies
#1
Before creating my response to Sander, i wanted to experiment on how to take them so that i am comfortable on how to create typologies. Firstly i went onto my typology board that was created on pintrest to find some inspiration in order to create some typologies. i found an image which had around 12 different types of tea cups, taken in the same area. Using this whole theme on tea cups, i used 3 teat cups and showed the process of making tea. I wish i would have showed different tones in the image, but i did show different tones in the tea, from concentrated black tea to milky tea. With my second typology, i was unable to actually produce the typology i wanted to do. I wanted to take different doors with the same door number such as the number "6" or the same door colour such as "black" with the different door numbers. I still wanted my typology to be different to my first one so i decided to change the length and width per picture in the "collage"
Documenting Typologies:
-Taryn Simon
-August Sander
-Ed Ruscha
-Michael Wolf
Why make groups?
-August Sander
-Ed Ruscha
-Michael Wolf
Why make groups?
- satisfaction
- ordering something obscure
- seeing what is delicate and different between objects
- brings tension between comparing
- social/economic connection
Bernd & Hila Becher (part 1)
Video notes (Bernd & Hilla Becher)
- -heavy industry, coal mine, factories.
- -cooling towers etc
- -objects whose development show a historical thread and aren’t here by accident.
- -shrunk images, architecture behind the industry
- -”doomed to disappear”
- -architecture as important as medieval quarries
- -lots of shots out of fascination, then they had to group them
- -define the basic forms, then realised the forms came in different varieties and subspecies
- -then created typologies
- -classifying photos to bring out the small differences
- -each typology, each object corresponds with the other
- -horizontal, vertical and diagonal
- -number one relates to number 15 (some how)
- -water towel is a simple structure but surprising the amount of different ones]
- -from normal wooden ones on roofs in new york to more refined ones but all have the same functions
- -have a certain spirit of age and way of thinking
- -telephoto lense to avoid distribution
- -600mm lense
- - work with two tripods to avoid vibration
- - water towers (shot in winter) … foggy day so background is clear and does disrupt the photo
- -used telephoto lense (blast furnace)
- -exposure time is long, avoid distortion, small aperture, cloud days so less light, shutter open for 20 seconds,
- -viewer may feel no question of composition, certain objects is easy to do.
- -important thing, horizon, ¾ of object so it doesn't disturb
- -framing is important
- -perspective shots be careful, no white objects around
- -standard formats
- -30-40 used before then 50-60 for museums
- -purpose of photography to see in an objective way.
- -objectivity vs subjectivity
- -objectivity, object speaks for itself.
Experience of order:
- -practical reasons
- -some objects need to be ordered
- -context is very important?
- -do we have control over context, can it be organised
Michael Wolf:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-Z4useQql6P4immtdcCyrgQG9gb5U9AvYlyieIZgDg8/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-Z4useQql6P4immtdcCyrgQG9gb5U9AvYlyieIZgDg8/edit?usp=sharing