typologies
Typology is a classification according to general type, especially in archaeology, psychology, or the social sciences. OR the study and interpretation of types and symbols, originally especially in the Bible. (Definition from Wikipedia)
august sander- FACE OF OUR TIME
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August Sander made a photo book called "Face of Our Time" this was a series of photographic albums of different types of German people. He started it in the early 1920s and published it in 1929, it consists of 60 portraits of different types of German people. In 1936 the book was seized and the photographic plates destroyed, this was due to the uprising of Hitler and how the Nazis didn't want everyone to see that there is a very large amount of different types of people in Germany. At around 1942 Sander moved to a rural area where he managed to save most of his negatives, however in 1944 his studio was destroyed in a bombing raid. Around thirty thousand of the negatives survived the war to then burn accidentally in a fire in Cologne 1946. After the war Sander stopped working as a photographer and died in 1964.
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Sander categorised the people he took portraits of into different groups according to their class and profession. He has had a massive effect on the world of photography and has influenced many different photographers.
my response
I decided to do my typologies on different mechanical tools, this is because there are so many different types of the same tool in my dads garage which I thought was quite a different typology as I don't think many people would have thought about tools. I found it quite difficult to think about what I should do a typology on however I think it worked out quite well in the end.