Thursday, 26 January 2012

Evidence and Typologies, bookstock

I started looking at the book Heads, by Alex Kayser, 

In a conversation with Lyn Mandlebaum and Alex Axelrod at the begining of the book, Kayser says " this book isn't about baldness. it has nothing to do with bald people. it has to do with faces, exposed faces." taking the fascination of hair away has made all the images of the peoples heads look similar and almost identical.



In this book Kayser goes against the conventional and photographs people with bald heads, all of which have no hair, Kayser lines up the pictures of the heads in a row of four and put the similar looking people classing them into colour of their skin shapes of their head. grouping them Kayser had found they all looked similar but all bought their own aura to the picture. 

Bernd & Hilda Becher series of water towers


This image also fits into the category of evidence and typologies, all have been taken the same distance same angle and are same dimensions. 
like Bernd & Hilda Becher, has Kayser captured each person at the same angle trying to formulate a similarity in each picture focusing in and showing the comparisons between all the people. each picture has similarities e.g. the bald heads but are different people, the water towers are all water towers but are different structures.



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