Author(s)

Zhi Li and Yan Zeng

Corresponding Author

Zhi Li

Abstract

Since the appearance of the Bernd and Hilla Becher’s photography works of industrial buildings, these categories of photographs of industrial buildings, as well as their unique expression form which like visual archives, have attracted wide attention. These works are called "typology photography". It shall be said that typology photography has expanded new space and constructed new language connotation for the development of photography language. Typology photography shows an "evolution" of photography language, which has far-reaching influence on the development of photography language today. Typology photography forms an expansion of direction and scale in the ontological language of photography. Typology photography shows indifference to the viewer, but it is precisely because of these "apathy" that it constitutes the fundamental concern of typology photography for human beings.

Keywords

Typology photography, Photography language, Linguistic value, Feature