Approaches to producing images - Typology

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Typology (Work in Progress)

This is one of the approaches we cover and teach you about.

Typology is an approach where you focus on 'Types' and produce a series of images in sets, often presented as a composite on one single piece of paper, e.g. an A3 print with 9, 12 or 15 images or more. Alternatively the images can be produced singularly and then displayed as a set at the end of a project.

 

Within your longer projects, whereby you have to explore and experiment with different approaches in producing your images, this is one of the approaches that you can evidence in your work that has excellent opportunities to link with high quality research that evidences key points in Photography history. Typology also allows you to discuss several other elements in conjunction with the images/approach. If you look at Bernd & Hiller Becher, this will allow you to explore and discuss Objectivity Vs Subjectivity maybe linking with Deadpan and other artists such as Thomas Ruff and looking at the links his work has with Photobooth images and the imposition of a set of rules that takes the subjective elements out of the image taking process.

 

Other artists that you should look at directly linked to Typology are James Mollison and two of my Favourites Jeffrey Milstein and Alejandro Cartagena.

 

Jeffrey Milstein (Planes).

 

 Jame Mollison (James and Other Apes)

 

The images here all use relatively simple approaches with the exception of the Bechers, the Bechers would have used 10x8 view cameras, film and darkroom approaches. Similarly you have to make decisions as to whether you want to keep things simple and produce the work at the experimental phase using your digital cameras, but once you've produce your work in a number of different ways you might consider shooting your work using the Typology conventions and perhaps explore producing it with another experimental approach, or use film and Darkroom/analogue techniques.

 

Pinhole camera (As a Typology)

Mixed Media (As a Typology)

Liquid emulsion (As a Typology)

Images & Text (As a Typology)

 

All of the artists mentioned here have either been featured in recent Journals or have Youtube videos where their work is discussed and explained by either the artists or someone qualified to do so.

 

In terms of difficulty, this is a relatively easy approach with the potential to produce visually interesting outcomes that meet a great number of your learning outcomes required to attain the higher grades. Needless to say at the end of any work that you produce around the theme of Typology you should then reflect on the work that you've produced and consider it as a possible method of producing your final body of work. Because of the potential of Typology and the fact that it can be easily mixed with a range of different approaches, this could also be the main thing your project could hinge around and explore and could easily serve as your starting point for any independently led project?

 

Additional photographers that work using the Typology approach can be found here - http://www.listofphotographers.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

 

 





Typology in photography (How to Ace your A-Level)

How to Ace you A-Level in Photography (And other courses)

TYPOLOGY IN PHOTOGRAPHY

Across the course you need to produce images that use contemporary approaches to making and producing images. These approaches can be construed as experimental in many cases and this identifies one of the key assessment criteria that you need to meet. In addition they take your photography over and above the norm and introduce you to new concepts and ideas and broaden your photographic knowledge.

Again, I'm going to mention that your starting point should be the Journals and magazines in the LRC (Learning resources Centre) and the Forum. You should be looking at the British Journal of Photography, Hotshoe and many more on weekly basis to give you ideas and inspire you. Here's the reason why.



One of your assignments is based around the concept of presenting images as a typologies. The Daddy (And the Mummy) of typology are the Bechers - Bernd and Hiller.

As with all of the projects you need to produce the work over a series of shoots, developing and improving them as you go. At stages (After each shoot perhaps) you should review the work using a method such as the Gibbs reflective practice model to drive the work on and forwards to better results.

You should choose a subject that you like and will be happy to shoot, you need to consider all the other approaches that you've been taught about and tried and look at fusing those ideas with these. Remember the work you produce needs to be experimental in a number of ways and as you produce this work, this experimental aspect could be brought in at each of the developmental stages.

Through research, looking at Journals such as the BJP, Hotshoe etc in the LRC and The Forum you might be in a position whereby you can link the work you're doing to a theme with a deeper meaning to it rather than just a series of images that are relatively meaningless. This is one of the more difficult aspects of any project when completed to tight deadlines and you massively improved the chances of being able to work with a theme of some substance if you're researching work that is made and produced in this way,

Alinka Echevirria – Typology + catholic + catholocism + personal + objects + charms + jewellery + 

Ari Versluis – exactitudes + typology + montage + fashion + skinheads
Candida Hofer – Typology + Public Buildings – Interiors - Categorization
Chris Coekin – Hitch hikers + portraits + roads + location + daylight + types + typology
Danielle Lilley – Cadets + soldiers + typology + portraits + war + stereotype + guns + uniform
David Maisel + decay + landscape + corrosion + environmental + issues + typology + topography + water + colour + xray + horses + skulls
Donavan Wiley – Typology + Northern Ireland + conflict + war + military + deadpan + aerial
Ed Ruscha – Typology + Petrol station + Parking Lots + Streets (Hollywood Bvld) + Aerial
Frank Gohlke – New Topographic + Landscape + Typology + Deadpan + Environment + Passing of Time + Monochrome
James Mollison – typology + monkey + apes + deadpan

The Bechers Youtube link (sub titles). No.1
The Bechers Youtube link  No.2

Jasper White
The Bechers
Jeffrey Milstein
Ed Ruscha
James Mollison

http://typology.ca/typologies-within-typologies-100-abandoned-houses-and-the-heidelberg-project-today/

http://blog.redbubble.com/2012/04/photographic-typologies-the-study-of-types/