BERND and HILLA BECHER

-Typology allows the viewer to notice both the similarities and differences of a series of objects. Through out a series the viewer can easily notice the similar outline of the subject. In Bernd and Hilla Becher's typology of water towers, you see the similarity of the shape of water towers. The outlining shape stays in the same spot through out the whole series. However, everything else in the photos are changing besides this outlining shape. This is a quality of typology that expresses the conceptual properties of the series.

-Bernd and Hilla Bechers' typology featuring photos of glass furnaces visually display another quality of typologies. Through out the series, the Bechers take photos of various tall furnaces. Again you can see the similar outline of the subjects. All of the furnaces are built and constructed differently from one another but, still contain some similarity in the shape. The viewer of a typology can see easily spot the similarities and differences of the subjects. The combination of the two in a series shows us, that even know the subjects may look and work severely different from one another, it is still working and completing it's purpose.

-One quality I like of Bernd and Hillas' work is that most of the photos are taken of very big structures. Their photos are also taken of all parts of the object and its surroundings. The viewer has the ability to clearly spot the differences of the subjects. This quality of the photographs leads to a lot of the conceptual ideas about the subjects differences I talked about before.

For the typology project I plan on taking pictures of various writing implements. The picture is going to include both the writing utensil and the hand of the subject. The subjects are going to be writing on whatever is relevant to the utensil. The photo is going to be taken from the position of the eyes of the subject. One thing i hope the viewer is going to be able to easily see is the relation between the writing utensil choice and the handwriting. To better illustrate this I am going to try and find subjects that over emphise this idea. For example, a girl who has very eloquent hand writing could be using a nice fountain pen or something along those lines. The notebook and the notes that are on the page are going to be very neat and clean. One detail that I do not know what I am going to do about is how much of the arm is going to be showing. The arm is not the problem, rather, the clothing that the subject is wearing. Because i plan on taking most of the photos in school, almost all of the subjects are going to be wearing blue or green. However, I have not yet decided on a framing for the picture entirley so I do not know how big of a problem this is.

Joie de Vivre (photos)

Joie de Vivre

For this project I had some difficulty. I first set out to take some photographs of Caleb and Arlen catching Frisbees. Getting a good angle and motion capturing the subjects was pretty difficult and I did not take any pictures I liked. Luckily Paul and Logan were there when i was attempting to take pictures. This re-occurring pose in the photographs was kind of just random. Through out the rest of the photos i wasn't sure how much or how not much to relate all four the the photographs. I wish i had taken some different photographs. For this project I found it kind of hard to create ideas or find subjects at school. I also found Lartigue's work very interesting for many ideas. I enjoyed his childish style of photography. The variety of Lartigue's photography provided inspiration for this project.
I do not think this set of photos is entirely successful in its unity. Three of the photographs are fairly alike in both formal and conceptual properties, the outlier is the one of Ben skateboarding. This photo still displays the circular shape of the body, however, the viewer of the photograph would most likely not gain joy or happiness when observing it. A formal quality that all of the photographs contain is some kind of line or shape that passes through of circumscribes the subjects. This was an aesthetic choice by the photographer to create a emphasis on the subjects. The photograph of Logan, by himself, only contains Logan and a brick wall. Because of the lack of subject, I took this photo without leaving the viewer able to see the ground. This leaves the viewer without knowing where Logan is in relation to the ground. In other the photos you are able to tell exactly what the subjects are doing. In this photo, however, we do not really know what Logan could have been doing.