Typology Photography
タイポロジー写真 / 1959– / Style / Photography Movements
The Bechers' method: identical structures shot under identical conditions and hung in grids. Overcast light, strict frontality and unpeopled repetition turn individuals into types — the grammar of contemporary photography via Düsseldorf.
Grid presentation / Even overcast light / Strict frontality / Typification through repetition
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the Bechers' water towers / the Düsseldorf academy / Gursky, Struth and Ruff