We have been given a short assignment to research and create our own version of a Typology series. It first began by two photographers named Bernt and Hilla Becher;
The German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, who began working together in 1959 and married in 1961, are best known for their "typologies" grids of black-and-white photographs of variant examples of a single type of industrial structure. To create these works, the artists traveled to large mines and steel mills, and systematically photographed the major structures, such as the winding towers that haul coal and iron ore to the surface and the blast furnaces that transform the ore into metal. The rigorous frontality of the individual images gives them the simplicity of diagrams, while their density of detail offers encyclopedic richness.
The typologies emulate the clarity of an engineer's drawing, while the landscapes evoke the experience of a particular place. The exhibition presents these two formats together; because they lie at the polar extremes of photographic description, each underscores the creative potential of the other.
Source: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/95
For my version of a Typology series I would like to take photographs of Post boxes in Hull and surrounding area's.
I have completed my Typology project. I took images of postboxes in my area of Hull and Hornsea.
