The most influential German photographers of the postwar period, the Bechers rigorously documented the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America.
The Bechers’ austere photographs documenting industrial architecture across Britain, Europe and North America in the second half of the last century are a stark reminder of a lost world of labour
Bernd and Hilla Becher began photographing together in 1959. Bernd (1931–2007) and Hilla (1934-2015) Becher documented architectural forms for over 30 years
Text by Siegfried Gohr. Afterword by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl. A second-generation student of Bernd and Hilla Becher, photographer Boris Becker organizes his serial works by formal motifs and color accents. His encyclopedic compendium of Second World War German bunkers encompasses 700 images; others document apartment blocks, and more recent series include Fakes, photographs of objects designed to smuggle drugs.
The urban landscape is changing for ever as hundreds of iconic Victorian gas holders disappear. But some ingenious repurposing is already afoot…
Bernd and Hilla Becher began photographing together in 1959. Bernd (1931–2007) and Hilla (1934-2015) Becher documented architectural forms for over 30 years
the placelessness and timelessness of the photographs of Bernd and Hilla Becher
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Все фотографы понимают, что единичной фотографией сложно произвести впечатление на зрителя и передать заложенную в проект мысль. Тогда мы начинаем использовать серии. И первое, что приходит в голову — это фотоистория. Но не многие знают, что фотоистория — сильно устаревший жанр, применительно к современной фотографии. На смену ей пришла типология.
For over 40 years, starting from the early 1960s, German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher photographed over two hundred industrial plants and...
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The Bechers’ austere photographs documenting industrial architecture across Britain, Europe and North America in the second half of the last century are a stark reminder of a lost world of labour
Explore the artists and artworks of our time at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Bernd and Hilla Becher began photographing together in 1959. Bernd (1931–2007) and Hilla (1934-2015) Becher documented architectural forms for over 30 years
The German Minimalist husband-and-wife team’s retrospective features around 200 of their photographs of frame houses, industrial sites and other monuments of secular architecture, blurring the line between documentary and art
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Esta pareja exploró durante cinco décadas las construcciones industriales y formó la generación de fotógrafos más importante en el arte contemporáneo.
A new show at the Städel Museum in Düsseldorf explores the radical approach of the Bechers and their students
Bernd and Hilla Becher began photographing together in 1959. Bernd (1931–2007) and Hilla (1934-2015) Becher documented architectural forms for over 30 years
Bernd (1931 – 2007) & Hilla (born 1934) German Artists How fascinating is, for me the, the entire work of this couple. It matches all my profound ideas, so that is for sure an inspiration, even…
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They are renowned for images of Germany's ominous water towers and monolithic coal bunkers, but the Bechers' body of work, majestic though it may be, belongs to the past now, writes Sean O'Hagan
Chris Wiley on the industrial-architecture photography of Bernd and Hilla Becher, which was until recently shown at the Metropolitan Museum, in New York.
In this lecture, titled "As Photographed by Bernd and Hilla Becher: Considering the Architecture of the Timber Frame Houses of the Siegen Industrial Region," scholar Karl Kiem discusses the German photographers’ internationally acclaimed artworks. For the first time, an in-depth investigation explores the structure and substance of the timber frame houses. The lecture is free for SCAD ID holders and museum members and open to the public with cost of museum admission.
Bernd and Hilla Becher began photographing together in 1959. Bernd (1931–2007) and Hilla (1934-2015) Becher documented architectural forms for over 30 years
