Curio: Mitch Frey's Film Typologies
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 9:21AM Alexa here. The German photographers Bernard and Hilla Becher pioneered the art of the typology: grids of images of various examples of a single type of object. The technique was to photograph a series of similar objects, usually industrial structures, from similar vantage points to highlight what their differences were. Illustrator Mitch Frey has used this technique to create grids of types from the world of film, including these 70s movie men. He's turned the typology into a fun guessing game of "Name That Movie!"
We'll continue the guessing games after the jump, with 70s ladies, and typologies of Clint Eastwood through the years...
Mystery Action Movie Mouths!
And Movie Vans!
How many do you recognize? You can see more of his pop work here.
Cars, Clint Eastwood, Curio, Oscars (70s), games
Reader Comments (11)
NAme that movie:
Superman, Shaft, (don’t know)
(don’t know), Rocky, Death Wish
Dirty Harry, Jeremiah Johnson. Clockwork Orange
Serpico, Taxi Driver, Perfect
Chinatown, (don’t know), Annie Hall
70’s Ladies
Sissy Spacek, Carrie Fisher, Madeleine Kahn
(what’s her name), Diane Keaton, (that actress)
Olivia Neutron Bomb, Linda Blair, Goldie Hawn,
Pam Grier, (you know who) Lois Fletcher
Barbra, Faye, Liza
The seventi!es men:
Superman - Shaft - The Godfather - The Sting - Rocky - Death Wish - Elvis - A Star is Born - A Clockwork Orange - Serpico - Taxi Driver - The Deer Hunter - Chinatown - ??? - Annie Hall
The last row middle has to be Burt Reynolds in..Smokey and the Bandit?
What fun these are.
Seventies actresses, I'll give it a shot:
Top row: Sissy Spacek/Carrie, Carrie Fisher/Star Wars, Madeline Kahn/Young Frankenstein
Second row: Ellen Burstyn/Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, ?, Jane Fonda/Klute
Third row: ?, Linda Blair/Exorcist, ?
fourth row: Pam Grier,Foxy Brown, ?, Louise Fletcher/One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
fifth row:Barbra Streisand/ What's Up Doc, Jodie Foster/Taxi Driver, Liza Minnelli/Cabaret
AR: Second row middle is...Julie Christie in McCabe and Mrs. Miller? Third row, right is...Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence?
Second row, middle: Annie Hall?
Third row, left: Olivia Newton-John, Grease?
Third row, right: Goldie Hawn?
Yes, that's totally Olivia Newton-John in Grease! Such an obvious one once you get it!
Dieter, you did great except "Elvis" is actually Dirty Harry.
I think the men's third row middle might be Jon Voigt in Coming Home because of the blond hair.
You are right, Deborah, it is Dirty Harry. Should have gotten that. But looks like Kurt Russell with glasses all the same ;-)
Taking a stab at the mouths now:
Stallone-Schwarzenegger-Connery-Eastwood-???-Bronson-Clooney-lost on the last two
the only vans I can get are Little Miss Sunshine and Napolean Dynamite. I am not a vehicular person.
The movie mouths...
Stallone Swartzenegger ?
Eastwood ? Branson
Willis ? ?