Typology is a type of photography which the following
photographers specialised in. I have collected some examples of
their work as well as a short extract from each website that
examines their work in more detail and depth.
I will also provide a typology with a series of images with
similar traits.
August Sander – Face of our time
Country Girls by August Sander © Die Photographische Sammlung/SK
Stiftung Kultur – August Sander Archiv, Cologne / DACS 2018
https://www.bjp-online.com/2018/05/august-sander-men-without-masks/
August Sander: “A Profile of the People” (2002)
Posted on April 18, 2012 by Editorial @ ASX
https://americansuburbx.com/2012/04/theory-august-sander-profile-of-people.html
Born in 1876 in the German mining town of Herdorf, August Sander
discovered photography while working at a local slagheap.
Serendipitously meeting a landscape photographer working there for
a mining company, he went on to assist the image-maker, and by 1909
had opened his own studio in Cologne.
Around this time, he also started taking portraits of his
fellow-Germans, deliberately eschewing the then-prevalent
pictorialist approach in favour of recording as much detail as
possible. “Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an
image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of
photography,” he stated. “Let me speak the truth in all honesty
about our age and the people of our age.”
This work evolved into his decades-long project People of
the 20th Century, now considered a seminal photographic work.
Falling into seven distinct groups, People of the 20th
Century set out to show ‘The Farmer’, ‘The Skilled Tradesman’,
‘The Woman’, ‘Classes and Professions’, ‘The Artists’, ‘The City’
and ‘The Last People’, and in doing so revealed Germany’s
ethnic and class diversity.
Bernd and Hilla Becher – Typologies
Water Towers 1972–2009© Estate of Bernd Becher & Hilla
Becher
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/bernd-becher-and-hilla-becher-718
Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher
Winding Towers1966-97
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/136060
Bernhard "Bernd" Becher (German: [ˈbɛçɐ];
August 20, 1931 – June 22, 2007), and Hilla Becher,
née Wobeser (September 2, 1934 – October 10, 2015), were
German conceptual artists and photographers working as a
collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series
of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and
structures, often organised in grids. As the founders of what has
come to be known as the ‘Becher school’ or the ‘Düsseldorf School’
they influenced generations of documentary photographers and
artists. They have been awarded the Erasmus Prize and the
Hasselblad Award.
Hans Eijkelboom – Photonotes, People of the Twenty-First
Century
Photographer Spends 20 Years Documenting How We All Dress
Exactly Alike
https://www.picsgen.com/hans-eijkelboom-people-of-the-twenty-first-century/
The Same But Different – Dutch Photographer Spends 20 Years
Documenting People Who Dress Similarly
http://thaumaturgical.com/different-dutch-photographer-spends-20-years-documenting-people-dress-similarly/#
You could never accuse Hans Eijkelboom of a lack of dedication.
For his new book, People of the Twenty-First Century, the
photographer and conceptual artist spent 20 years lurking around
shopping centres – initially in his native Netherlands, later in
America and China. Working almost daily, he would note similarities
in the appearance of passers-by and surreptitiously photograph them
or take “photo notes” as he calls them.
“The process,” he says, “is simply that I walk to the centre of
the city where many people are. Then I walk around for 10 to15
minutes. When something in the crowd intrigues me or touches me, I
decide that will be the theme of the day. Then I start
photographing for two hours. Many times, it goes wrong: I don’t see
anything, so I don’t photograph that day; or I go to the city, see
my subject, start photographing and, surprisingly, in the next two
hours, never see my subject again. And then, for that day, there is
no photo note.”
Joachim Schmid – Other People’s Photographs
Joachim Schmid, Other People’s Photographs, Buddies,
2008–2011.
https://www.klatmagazine.com/en/photography-en/joachim-schmid-interview/33145
Arcana (1996-2008). Lisbon, March 1993. Joachim Schmid.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Figura-2-Arcana-1996-2008-Lisbon-March-1993-Joachim-Schmid_fig2_313424304
Photographer, artist, archivist: it’s hard to come up with an
unambiguous definition of the German Joachim Schmid, pioneer
of found photography, who for thirty years has been offering
an authorial view of the flow of images produced by our daily
existence. Schmid is above all a predator of the lives and gazes of
others, someone who seeks them out and finds them in flea markets,
antique bookstores or that immense deposit of snapshots to be found
on photo sharing sites. He himself recognizes that the internet has
represented the only decisive watershed in his work: everything can
be found online, and at once. And it is no accident that the 96
volumes of the project Other People’s Photographs are
devoted to Flickr.
Eric Tabuchi – Alphabet Truck
https://www.erictabuchi.net/
atlas-of-forms.net
Archive d'images d'architectures doté d'un moteur de recherche
permettant d'effectuer une recherche à partir de 16 critères
élémentaires
Alphabet Truck, 200815,5 x 19,2 cm26 cartes offset sous
étuiEdition limitée à 600 exemplairesÉditeur: Florence LoewyWith
this edition of Alphabet Truck, Eric Tabuchi completes a work
representing several thousands of kilometres traversed over these
past four years. The missing link between The back of trucks
passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara by John
Baldessari and Auchan, the letters of Claude Closky, Eric
Tabuchi pushes the burlesque or compulsive logic of his piece in an
almost derisory search for what could constitute its Danish and
Japanese origins. Through language (Alphabet) and displacement
(Trucks), Alphabet Truck therefore questions, beyond its formal
aspects and references, the notions of membership, identity and
coeducation
https://www.erictabuchi.net/filter/Photoworks/Alphabet-Truck
