August Sanderwe know that people are formed by the light and air, by their inherited traits, and their actions. We can tell from appearance the work someone does or does not do; we can read in his face whether he is happy or troubled. |
August Sander was a German photographer, documenter and typological portrait artist. In total he took roughly 40,000 photographs in his time. The Nazi party were however responsible for destroying a large collection of his work.
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The rather dehumanising factor to this typology is that rather than each individual photograph being a portrait, Sander believed they were nothing more than different 'types' of person. This could represent the post First World War and New Objectivity esque mindset that groups of artists had at the time. Due to the encouraged disconnection from romanticising art, people were trying to show the world for what it is. Sander was trying to put it truly and bluntly by making people at the time realise the large equalitarian displacement in society.
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- the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century. He presented this idea through The People of the 20th Century. By classifying the portraits into groups such as profession or social class he gave an image to the word. It was a visual declaration of how vast one class of people are from another despite the intrinsic value that we are all human.
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This Typology is by Taryn Simon called A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters. This Typology is quite like the one above.
In each of the eighteen ‘chapters’ that make up the work, the external forces of territory, power, circumstance, or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. |
This Typology below I called 'Looking Closer' is similar to and was inspired by Michaels Wolf's Typology, transparent city/details, one pair from this set of work is displayed to the right. These pairs of photographs I took were from Google maps. I made them to put into practise the loose notion Michael Wolf's series inspires. which is the individual stories lost in the dense chaos of the modern day city. I wanted to portray quite the opposite in my work. My series was based on trying to find a story to the photograph. Its quite ironic because even though I have found a subject in each photograph, the story doesn't tell you much due to the bleak, repetitive nature of each pair. However, it does display well that the notion of the American dream isn't as 'dream' like as it is made out to be.
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