A Typological photo series tends to be presented in a grid like form. The Becher’s spent thirty years creating works of “anonymous sculpture” of industrial forms. This approach draws on “the scientific objectivity of photographic evidence” (PhotoPedagogy. n.d.).
August Sander applied this approach to portraiture, photographing thousands of people categorising them into ‘types’. Many subsequent photographers have taken this idea forward, such as Boris Mikhailov’s, German portraits, Michael Wolf’s Tree shadows and My favourite thing and Zhao Xiaomeng’s Bicycles in Beijing, now.
References
PhotoPedagogy. n.d. Typologies. [online] Available at: <https://www.photopedagogy.com/typologies.html#> [Accessed 30 November 2020].
Landscape, Place and Environment 