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Bernd and Hilla Becher
Hot Blast Stoves, Steel Plant, Duisberg-Meiderich, Germany
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- $12,000 - 18,000
$23,940
Lot Details
Gelatin silver print, printed 1989.
1986
23 5/8 x 17 1/8 in. (60 x 43.5 cm)
Signed by both artists, titled and dated in pencil on the verso. Number one from an edition of five.
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Bernd and Hilla Becher, Dia Art Center, New York, 14 December 1989 - 21 June 1991 - Departing from their characteristic installation style of typological groupings, the Becher exhibited about 70 works arranged separately. The emphasis was thereby placed on each individual photograph, rather than multiple images together.
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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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