_{Zhao Xiaomeng} – Bicycle in Beijing

 

The fate of the bicycle can tell us a lot about modern Chinese economy. This moving typology documents a radical change in people’s living conditions and economic circumstances through portraits of their bikes, some of which still cling to the last remnants of a useful life. As the old Beijing saying goes ,”a dog’s life is better than no life”. 

What is a Photographic Typology? 

A photographic typology is a study of “types”. That is, a photographic series that prioritizes collecting rather than stand alone images. 

It’s powerful method of photography that can be used to reshape the way we perceive the world around us. 

James Mollison - 

Photographer James Mollison reveals the variability of our uncanny human cousins in a stunning series of close-up portraits of the Great Apes. 

The tight focus of his photographs forces us to look right into the eyes of gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans of different ages and personalities.
A common task is to see if the monkeys exhibit any behavioral differences on tasks when faces are presented normally versus upside down. In humans, when you flip a photo of a face upside down, we have a harder time processing it. That's evidence that our brains see faces as not just a combination of shapes and textures but as, well, a face. They call this "the inversion effect."