Typological Photography

Typological Photography is an important thread within the history of photography. It can be understood as a practice of photographing subjects repeatedly under similar conditions so that difference and structure can be compared. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.

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MovementTypological Photography
Photographers1

Overview

A practice of photographing subjects repeatedly under similar conditions so that difference and structure can be compared.

Photographers

🇩🇪DE1931–2007
Bernd & Hilla Becher
Typological Photography
Typological PhotographyConceptual Art+1

Bernd and Hilla Becher turned industrial structures into one of the central subjects of postwar conceptual photography.

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