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Bernd and Hilla Becher
Fachwerkhäuser, Siegener Industriegebiet (Framework Houses, Industrial District of Siegen) 1959–1973
- 估價
- £8,000 - 12,000♠
£17,500
拍品詳情
The complete set of 12 duotone offset prints, on Ikonorex paper, with full margins.
1993
all I. 40.4 x 30.8 cm (15 7/8 x 12 1/8 in.)
all S. 63 x 50 cm (24 3/4 x 19 5/8 in.)
all S. 63 x 50 cm (24 3/4 x 19 5/8 in.)
All signed by both artists, each numbered consecutively from 'I' to 'XII' and all annotated 'ARCHIVE COPY' in pencil on the reverse (the edition was 50 and 10 artist's proofs), co-published by Edition Schellmann, Munich and New York (with their inkstamp on the reverse of sheet 'I'), and Sonnabend Sundell Editions, New York, all framed.
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圖錄文章
"The photography of the Bechers is a documentary photography. The buildings, mostly industrial manufacturing plants, regarded by the artists as "anonymous sculptures" appear isolated, without the working man. They are monuments in and of themselves, and at the same time symbols of functionality. In typological series, constructions or devices with the same functions and comparable structures are analyzed, always under the same - objective - shooting circumstances, in absolute abstention from an expressive treatment. With their encyclopedic work the Bechers are archivists of a disappearing world."
- Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 20
- Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 20
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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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