Typologies and new Topographies
Definition of Typology: a system used for putting things into groups according to how they are similar: the study of how things can be divided into different types. (Merriam-Webster dictionary www.merriam-webster.com ) .
A classification, study or analysis according to general type, (Oxford dictionary)
Topography : mapping and detailed description and graphic representation
The Exhibition in 1975 heralded a new era in landscape photography. "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape". It featured work from:
Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel Jr.
Much of the work showed the colonisation and exploitation of the landscape and was classified as documentary photography. It was entirely different from what had previously been categorised as landscape art which depicted grand views of natural land features.
At the time the exhibition was poorly received and criticised for being pictures of the ordinary and banal.
Robert Adams: Pictures showing Man encroaching on the landscape..
Lewis Beltz: conceptual photography, Tract houses showing various squares within squares that make up houses.
Bernd and Hilla Becher: grids showing power houses and other industrial machinery taken at similar angles and lighting but different individual installations making powerful images with the repetition.
Joe Deal: His exhibition pictures were of the building development, but some of his earlier work included landscapes in the older tradition.
A classification, study or analysis according to general type, (Oxford dictionary)
Topography : mapping and detailed description and graphic representation
The Exhibition in 1975 heralded a new era in landscape photography. "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape". It featured work from:
Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel Jr.
Much of the work showed the colonisation and exploitation of the landscape and was classified as documentary photography. It was entirely different from what had previously been categorised as landscape art which depicted grand views of natural land features.
At the time the exhibition was poorly received and criticised for being pictures of the ordinary and banal.
Robert Adams: Pictures showing Man encroaching on the landscape..
Lewis Beltz: conceptual photography, Tract houses showing various squares within squares that make up houses.
Bernd and Hilla Becher: grids showing power houses and other industrial machinery taken at similar angles and lighting but different individual installations making powerful images with the repetition.
Joe Deal: His exhibition pictures were of the building development, but some of his earlier work included landscapes in the older tradition.
Nicholas Nixon
Stephen ShoreJohn Schott
Henry Wessel Jr
What have these photographers in common?
What have I derived from looking and
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/series/sean-o-hagan-on-photography
http://www.belfastexposed.org/exhibition/the_maze
"Rather than the dramatised scenarios of some types of photo-journalism, the tendency in Cruel and Tender is towards the quiet documentation of overlooked aspects of our world, whether architecture, objects, places or people. In the words of Philip-Lorca diCorcia, it is an ambition to record ‘that which was never really hidden, but rarely is noticed.’" http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/cruel-tender