Typologies
Photographic Typologies is a strategy that many photographers use to create a series of images of the same things in the image, such as people or objects. August Sander was a German photographer, who was well known for being one of the first to produce such studies, in his 1929 seres of portraits, called 'Face Of Out Time'. These images were based on German society between WWI and WWII, which he then categorised by their social classes and statuses.
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Brouws born in San Francisco and started perusing photography since the age of 13. Using single photographs, he created typologies of the nations urban character. Initially he focused many of his photographs around the Highway landscape then later extended it to Franchised landscapes such as fast food restaurants.
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Response #1
These set of images were based around typologies, by taking a series of images that were all of close ups of flowers in my house. I decided to take close ups of the flower. I took all of these images on my iPod, which made it harder to zoom in, whilst keeping the images in focus. So I decided the picture quality would come out better if I only focused on having one flower in the frame. As well as this it allowed me to capture the detail and layers in the flower. One way I could have improved, was by making sure they were all zoomed in the same amount, as some are more zoomed in than others. One thing I don't like about this first response, is that the colours don't go together, I think this would bother me less if they were all zoomed in the same amount, but because they aren't, I think I will experiment putting these into black and white.
Second set of images
I took these set of images around school using a DSLR camera. As there are lots of colourful quotes on the walls all in different fonts I thought it would be good to focus on one specific letter and show how it appears in a varieties of places around my school. I didn't want do have a large set of images, as I didn't think I needed to add anymore. But to improve I still could have taken at least another 4 images to include, I would also crop some of the images more to cut out any unwanted parts for example extra space.
Focus Typology
Bernd and Hilla Bercher- Typology of industrial architecture
In 1958 Bernd and Hilla took their first first images, focusing on rural regions, but mainly industrial, they travelled around; France, England and the United States to take these typologies. Lots of images they took were of water towers, because they showed how architecture was during that time period. They first came up with the technique typologies after they had taken a set of images and started placing them into different groups after they realised the forms come into different sections. Then from those groups they put the images together to create typologies, and made sure each typology corresponded to one another. To take these images they would usually use a 600mm lens or a telephoto lens and used a long shutter speed of 20 seconds, because of this Bernd and Hilla made sure whenever they took a photograph, the weather would have to be cloudy or foggy, so there wasn't any light. This was to get an accurate image to avoid distortion. Here are a few examples of their work, and a couple of videos explaining their work.
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Ed Ruscha- Everything Building on the Sunset Strip
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German photographer. For this project he captures images that have already been taken from google maps. He focuses on architecture in some images, but mainly the culture and lifestyle. The images I chose here I chose to show the negative lifestyles he captures, from violence or isolation. I used these ideas in my own interpretations of his work.
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Street View Images
These set of images were taken in class using a DLSR camera, photographing place we have searched on street view (google maps). Firstly I look images around my area (Blackheath) so it would seem more familiar an realistic. This task felt strange to me because I was photographing someone else's photos, so they didn't feel like mine. But I really like the photographs that include people in them, as their faces have been blurred. I also changed he photographs though in iPhoto by changing, the brightness and contrast. The hardest thing about this task was, to make the images my own, without feeling like I had just taken them from someone else. I took some images in Blackheath village I really liked these, because of the bright colours that came through, once I had changed the brightness and contrast. I think to make the images your own, you have to take them or slightly change the image, to make it more realistic. I then decided to try and find a place with a lot more people, so I changed the location to Los Angeles, to try and capture the American lifestyle. From these images I felt as though everyone was isolated and lonely as I never really saw people together. I think these set of images were more successful than my first set, because I could tamper around with the images more, as well as this I preferred the location as there was more I could photograph. When I took these images it felt more realistic, because it felt like I had more of a connection to the place than with Blackheath. To improve on both the first set, I would take more angles thats were believable, because I think I could have distorted. For my second set of images I liked the way I photographed them, because I think it was from a realistic angle if I was there taking the images myself. Also I think because I didn't know the area, and I had never been there before, I didn't really have a perspective on it, unlike Blackheath which I know very well. For the Blackheath images I didn't spend long capturing or editing the images where as the Los Angeles images took me longer to create. I think I took longer on the second set, because I was more interested in the lifestyle.