Beginning in the early 1960s, bernd and hilla becher s collaboration produced over two hundred photographic collections of industrial buildings, such as smokestacks, water towers, and factories. The photographic comportment of bernd and hilla becher tate. Hilla becher was a german artist born in 1931 in siegen, germany. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. They won the erasmus prize in 2002 and hasselblad award in 2004 for their work and roles as photography.
Their work provides us with a rare opportunity to see how we see. View bernd and hilla becher s 1,246 artworks on artnet. Bernd and hilla becher, winding towers, germany, france, britain. Bernd and hilla becher spent their career documenting industrial structures across the western world, creating a form of photography arranged by type that, through repetition, encourages viewers to engage deeply with the formal qualities of.
This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. The bechers used a largeformat camera placed at a raised vantage point and allowed a long exposure time. Life and work, with 53 duotone plates and more than 200 additional illustrations, is the first book to delve deeply into the sources and vision behind the evocative and melancholy beauty of the bechers work. Often they waited for days for the required flat nonexpressive light so that each structure could be recorded in the same highlystandardised manner, a manner that alludes to earlier traditions in german photography. They were lifelong german conceptual artists and photographers who worked as a collaborative duo. Bernd et hilla becher bernd hilla becher, who have spent their lives since the photographing germanys industrial infrastructure and ruins. In june 1966, the german artist hilla becher, who has died aged 81, set off, together with her husband bernd and their twoyearold son max, to south wales in a vw camper, towing an old caravan. Bernd and hilla becher photography, bio, ideas theartstory. Basic forms presents 61 photographs covering the entire range of becher motifswater towers, cooling towers, gas tanks and winding towers, blast furnaces, gravel plants, lime kilns, grain elevators and coal bunkers. Bernd hilla becher download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Read download bernd and hilla becher pdf pdf download.
Closer analysis, however, reveals that the divide between analogue and digital practices is not as strong as it initially appears, and that truth in photography depends. Bernd and hilla becher worked collaboratively for nearly half a century documenting industrial german structures. Bernd and hilla becher preparation plants 2009 artsy. In the late part of that decade, after he had joined forces with hilla becher, the couple together began to arrange such images in series according to functional category, and by the mid1960s they. Bernd and hilla becher spent their career documenting industrial structures across the western world, creating a form of photography arranged by type that, through repetition, encourages viewers to engage deeply with the formal qualities of the subject matter. Industriebauten 10 works by bernd and hilla becher on.
Bid now on industriebauten 10 works by bernd and hilla becher. The bechers erect typologies of form that challenge the traditional meanings of art, architecture, and photo graphy. Click download or read online button to get bernd hilla becher book now. Bernd and hilla becher s legacy is substantial, with a wide range of artists and photographers having been shaped by their emphasis on objectivity, their approach to changing environments and their development of typology as a. Bernd and hilla becher were two german photographers whose systematic documentation of their countrys industrial landscape has served as the basis for an entire school of contemporary photography. For forty years, they photographed disappearing industrial architecture around europe and north america. Bernd becher 19312007 and hilla becher 19342015 worked together as photographers beginning in 1959. In their typologiesseries of objective blackandwhite photosthe bechers sought to illuminate and catalogue the similarities and variations in design among particular building types, such as framework houses, water towers, and blast furnaces. Continuing germanys lineage of documentary photography, most notably august sanders portraits of the german public, the bechers aligned the. From 1976 to 1996, bernd becher taught photography at the dusseldorf academy. Detail of petrochemical plant, wesseling near colgne.
Founders of the internationally acclaimed becher class at the dusseldorf art academy, they have received numerous awards, including the golden lion at the 1990 venice biennale and the 2002 erasmus award. Pdf bernd and hilla becher download full pdf book download. Husband and wife bernd and hilla becher began photographing buildings and relics of the industrial revolution, such as coal mines and cooling towers, in 1959. Download pdf bernd hilla becher free online new books. Bernd and hilla becher document nondescript industrial buildings, such as smokestacks, water towers, and factories. Bernd and hilla bechers industrial photography amusing. For nearly five decades, the couple systematically photographed individual industrial structureswater towers, blast. Bernd becher s earliest photographs, from the 1950s, were arrestingly deadpan descriptions of mineheads and similar facilities. Bernd and hilla becher wall street international magazine.
Like objective scientists removing a specimen from the field, the bechers framed their subject in a manner that isolated it from its environment. Bernd becher and hilla becher, german photographers known for their straightforward blackandwhite images of types of industrial buildings. Anyway the audience which is interested in art would be the most openminded and willing to think about it. Bernd and hilla becher s legacy is substantial, with a wide range of artists and photographers having been shaped by their emphasis on objectivity, their approach to changing environments and their development of typology as a means of organizing images. Click download or read online button to get bernd and hilla becher book now. The becher s work and the becher or dusseldorf school of photography have influenced generations of documentary photographers and artists.
Bernd and hilla becher first began their stillongoing project of systematically photographing industrial structures water towers, blast furnaces. Bernd and hilla becher title detail of petrochemical plant, wesseling near colgne, germany year 1992. Bernd and hilla becher cooling tower, steelworks, haspe. Bernd and hilla becher, bernd becher, hilla becher. Bernd and hilla becher have been photographing industrial structures for more than a decade. Bernd and hilla becher, water towers, 1972, nine black and white photographs, the eli and edythe l.
Bernd and hilla becher download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in. That same year, he met hilla wobeser, a trained photographer who had defected. Basic forms serves as a kind of manual to bernd and hilla becher s landmark art and aesthetics. The photographic prints are gelatin silver prints, a technology developed in the 1870s. Anyway the audience which is interested in art would. Please note that artwork locations are subject to change, and not all works are on view at all times. Kuhlturme, deutschland cooling towers, germany 19661990. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. View a wide variety of artworks by bernd and hilla becher, now available for sale on artnet auctions.
She was one half of a photography duo with her husband bernd becher. Probably it is situated in between the established categories. Life and work, with 53 duotone plates and more than 200 additional illustrations, is the first book to delve deeply into the sources and vision behind the evocative and melancholy beauty of. Bernd becher and hilla becher german photographers. Medium gelatin silver print dimensions 24 38 x 20 18 in.
Authors bernd becher bernd becher 19312007 and hilla becher 19342015 worked together as photographers beginning in 1959. The question if this is a work of art or not is not very interesting for us. At first glance, the analogue photographs of bernd and hilla becher, on the one hand, and digital works of andreas gursky, on the other, would seem to confirm this distinction. At first glance, the analogue photographs of bernd and hilla becher, on the one hand, and digital works of andreas gursky, on the other, would seem to confirm. Bernd becher and hilla becher 19312007, 19342015 tate.
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