Bernd and Hilla Becher are among those rare artists whose work is part of widely differing collections all over the world. In the visual arts, they have ranked since the 1960s alongside major figures in minimal and conceptual art such as Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Robert Smithson and Sol LeWitt. In the history of photography, their work is mentioned in the same breath as Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, Karl Blossfeldt and August Sander, with whom the Bechers share a passion for the documentary and narrative qualities of the medium. Culturally, their brilliant black and white photographs of industrial buildings are rooted in the history of architecture and engineering, where their work provided an early research tool and resource for industrial archaeologists seeking to broaden the scope of architectural conservation. With their photographs of water towers and winding towers, blast furnaces, silos and gas tanks, over sixty of which are reproduced in this book, Bernd and Hilla Becher set new standards in perceptual aesthetics, presenting heavy industry as an object of art. Rendered timeless by the camera and isolated from their original, often perplexingly complex surroundings, they appear as monumental symbols of their own history - with all the stylistic diversity of the great masterpieces of architecture.

Bernd & Hilla Becher Basic Forms of Industrial Buildings /anglais

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Bernd & Hilla Becher Industrielandschaften (Hardback) /allemand (German Edition)

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Schirmer/Mosel

Bernd & Hilla Becher Erasmuspreis 2002 /anglais/allemand

Individual Artists

Bernd & Hilla Becher Typologien (Hardback) /allemand (German Edition)

Bernd & Hilla Becher Grundformen Industrielle Bauten /allemand

BERND & HILLA BECHER LEBEN UND WERK /ALLEMAND (German Edition)

Bernd & Hilla Becher Bergwerke und Hutten /allemand

From the publisher: "In the Siegen area east of Cologne, one of the world's oldest iron-producing regions, the use of wood for building purposes was regulated since wood, in the form of charcoal, was the energy base for ironsmelting. This self-imposed restriction produced an ideal framework structure eliminating all purely ornamental construction elements. Documented by Bernd and Hilla Becher in their first complete photographic series."

BERND & HILLA BECHER FACHWERKHAUSER /ALLEMAND

<p>MIT Press, Cambridge, 2000. 384 pp., 350 duotone illustrations, 8½x9½". The influence of this husband and wife team has been deeply felt in the international photography world for the past several decades, both directly as a result of their own pioneering work, which is a blend of topographical documentation and conceptual art, and indirectly through their students, most notably Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky. Framework Houses, their first book, was published in 1977 and quickly went out of print. Finally available again, MIT Press has done a superb job of reproducing this subtle and foundational work.</p>

Bernd & Hilla Becher Framework Houses /anglais

<p>Bernd und Hilla Becher sind die Begründer einer neuen Dokumentarphotographie. Ausgehend von der Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie, an der sie lehren, hat sich ihr Ruhm und der Ruf ihrer Schule inzwischen weltweit verbreitet. Ihre Methode ist die konsequente Verbindung von Kunst und wissenschaftlicher Systematik, die Arbeit in typologischen Reihen und der vergleichende Aspekt. Die Serie wurde in ihren Photographien auch zum ästhetischen Gesetz. Ihre ersten Bestandsaufnahmen verfallender Zweckbauten des frühen Industriezeitalters betitelten Bernd und Hilla Becher Anonyme Skulpturen. Sie begannen im Siegerland, zogen weiter ins Ruhrgebiet und nach Belgien; 1965 dokumentierten sie die Industriedenkmäler Großbritanniens, ab 1968 auch die der USA.</p>

Bernd & Hilla Becher Hochofen /allemand (German Edition)

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