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Bernd and Hilla Becher
Grain Elevators, Sycamore, Ohio, USA
- Estimate
- £2,000 - 3,000‡♠
Lot Details
Gelatin silver print, on Baryta paper, with full margins, contained in the original grey folder, with the accompanying monograph entitled Getreidesilos, all contained in the original grey cloth-covered slipcase.
1987/2008
I. 22.5 x 17 cm (8 7/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
S. 24 x 18.5 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.)
book 29.5 x 28 x 3 cm (11 5/8 x 11 x 1 1/8 in.)
S. 24 x 18.5 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.)
book 29.5 x 28 x 3 cm (11 5/8 x 11 x 1 1/8 in.)
Signed and numbered 42/100 in pencil on the reverse (there were also 15 artist's proofs in Roman numerals), further numbered on the label affixed to the folder, published by Schirmer/Mosel, Munich, printed in Germany, unframed.
Specialist
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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