This is really good example of a typology using photography. Each image is structured and composed the same, all black and white and shot on overcast days. The subject matter is similar, being water towers, blast furnaces, lime kilns, all within the coal and steel industry. There are multiple categories also, ranging from the location they were took, the type of build as mentioned previously, the shapes etc etc. It also proves a very effective form of documentation of a type of construction that is fast being destroyed and re-developed.
"The typologies are therefore not simply sequences of technical machines or buildings that reveal identical functions and structures, but are likewise complex and intrinsically highly differentiated compositions. Here, the aesthetics competes with the documentary, and the formal correlates with the factual."
- Armin Zweite
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