A Giant German Photography Survey Reinvigorates the Medium

Pictures shot dead-on and then arranged in rows or grids comprise almost every contribution to “Typologien,” a survey of 20th-century German photography at the Fondazione Prada in Milan. No horizon line is even mildly crooked, and all fall where they ought to—in the picture’s bottom third—or else are eliminated by way of a backdrop or an aerial view.That’s not surprising; Germans are famous for their love of rules, plenty of which, when it comes to photography