Water Bottle Typology Photography
What is Typology?
A classification according to general type or categories
The study of or analysis or classification based on types or categories
A systematic classification or study of types
Classifying types of subjects
A study or interpretation of types of things
Credit: Bernd and Hilla Becher
“A photographic typology is a suite of images or related forms, shot in a consistent, repetitive manner; to be fully understood, the images must be viewed as a complete series.”
- Kristine McKenna, “Photo Visions,” Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec 1991
The goal of this photography project was to create a “typological” series of photographs, to make a photographic typology. I created a photographic series on typology with a concept of my own. I ended up choosing people’s water bottles to photograph as the subjects of my typology project, since they are very commonplace, yet there are many different variations and types of water bottles. Individuals’ water bottles can even tell a lot about the person who owns them.
