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Bernd and Hilla Becher
Coal Tipple, Goodspring, PA
- Estimate
- $12,000 - 18,000
$15,120
Lot Details
Four gelatin silver prints, mounted together.
1975
Each 4 1/2 x 6 3/8 in. (11.4 x 16.2 cm)
Overall 16 x 19 1/2 in. (40.6 x 49.5 cm)
Overall 16 x 19 1/2 in. (40.6 x 49.5 cm)
Signed, dated by both artists in pencil and copyright credit stamp on the reverse of the mount; titled and numbered 21/60 in pencil on the mount.
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Bernd and Hilla Becher
GermanHusband and wife Bernd and Hilla Becher began photographing buildings and relics of the Industrial Revolution, such as coal mines and cooling towers, in 1959. Like objective scientists removing a specimen from the field, the Bechers framed their subject in a manner that isolated it from its environment. Often, these stark, beautifully detailed prints were then displayed in grid-like structures, forming stunning 'Typologies'.By the time Bernd Becher became a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1976 (policy would not allow Hilla to be a simultaneous appointment), the Bechers' photographs, with their seemingly neutral point of view and serial display, were already being applauded by the international art world as important works of Minimal and Conceptual Art.
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