美咸，WETTMANN，2023 年 12 月 2 日，拍品編號 68
The MIT Press, Water Towers, pl. 25, pl. 66, pl. 141, pl. 146
The MIT Press, Bernd and Hilla Becher: Life and Work, p. 171, pl. 51
Te Neues, Bernd and Hilla Becher: Basic Forms, pl. 61
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bernd & Hilla Becher, p. 122, p. 182
Each citation for various prints
German • Bernd 1931-2007 - Hilla 1934-2015
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. 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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