Bernd hilla becher pdf

Founders of the internationally acclaimed becher class at the dusseldorf art academy, they have received numerous awards, including the golden lion at the 1990 venice biennale and the 2002 erasmus award. Like objective scientists removing a specimen from the field, the bechers framed their subject in. Anyway the audience which is interested in art would. Download pdf version biography bernd becher was born in the siegen district in germany, in 1931. Download pdf bernd hilla becher free online new books. Bernd and hilla becher cooling tower, steelworks, haspe. The question if this is a work of art or not is not very interesting for us. Bernd et hilla becher bernd hilla becher, who have spent their lives since the photographing germanys industrial infrastructure and ruins. The bechers used a largeformat camera placed at a raised vantage point and allowed a long exposure time to give distant structures. Bernd and hilla becher met as students at the kunstakademie dusseldorf in 1957, and began collaborating two years later when they photographed and documented the disappearing german industrial architecture of the ruhr valley, where becher s family had worked. Continuing germanys lineage of documentary photography, most notably august sanders portraits of the german public, the bechers aligned the.

Bernd becher was born on august 20, 1931 in siegen, germany and hilla wobeser was born on september 2, 1934 in potsdam, germany. Probably it is situated in between the established categories. The becher s work and the becher or dusseldorf school of photography have influenced generations of documentary photographers and artists. View bernd and hilla becher s 1,246 artworks on artnet. Black and white photograph of a lime kilns by berhard and hilla becher, made in. August 20, 1931 june 22, 2007, and hilla becher, nee wobeser september 2, 1934 october 10, 2015, were german conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. For nearly five decades, the couple systematically photographed individual industrial structureswater towers, blast furnaces, grain elevators, framework. Photograph,cooling towers, bargoed power station, south of wales, gelatinsilver print, by bernd and hilda becher, 1975, england. Bernd and hilla becher s photography can be considered conceptual art, typological study, and topological documentation. Some historians of photography claim that a radical divide exists between analogue. He began photographing industrial buildings in 1956. Bernd becher and hilla becher, german photographers known for their straightforward blackandwhite images of types of industrial buildings. Bernd becher german, 19312007 and hilla becher german, 19342015 are best known for their photographs of industrial archetypes, such as water towers, pitheads, and coal bunkers.

For forty years, they photographed disappearing industrial architecture around europe and north america. At first glance, the analogue photographs of bernd and hilla becher, on the one hand, and digital works of andreas gursky, on the other, would seem to confirm. Bernd becher and hilla becher german photographers. Blast furnaces, bernd becher and hilla becher, 196995. Bernd and hilla becher page 2 of 3 sonnabend gallery. For nearly fifty years, bernd and hilla becher photographed the industrial architecture of western europe, creating an archive of basic forms of the industrial era. Bernd and hilla becher, winding towers, germany, france. Bernd and hilla becher biography bernd and hilla becher. The photographic comportment of bernd and hilla becher tate.

Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Bernd and hilla becher aspired to direct the audiences attention away from the photograph, emphasizing the content rather than light, perspective, or other artistic choices, but in doing so created a school of photography that forced reconsideration both of the presentation of images and the preservation of the built environment. That same year, he met hilla wobeser, a trained photographer who had defected. Read typologies of industrial buildings pdf full ebook online. Becher and andreas gursky edu i see fred ritchin, in our. To create these works, the artists traveled to large mines and steel mills, and systematically photographed the major. They began working together in 1959 and married in.

The german artists bernd 1931 2007 and hilla becher 1934 who began working together in 1959 and married in 1961, are best known for their typologies grids of black and white photographs with variant examples of a single type of industrial structure. Bernd and hilla becher, bernd becher, hilla becher. Their work provides us with a rare opportunity to see how we see. Bernd and hilla becher s legacy is substantial, with a wide range of artists and photographers having been shaped by their emphasis on objectivity, their approach to changing environments and their development of typology as a means of organizing images. An encyclopedic collection of all known becher industrial studies, arranged by building type. Please note that artwork locations are subject to change, and not all works are on view at all times. Life and work, with 53 duotone plates and more than 200 additional illustrations, is the first book to delve deeply into the sources and vision behind the evocative and melancholy beauty of the bechers work. Bernd and hilla becher wall street international magazine. Bernd and hilla becher were two german photographers whose systematic documentation of their countrys industrial landscape has served as the basis for an entire school of contemporary photography. Bernd and hilla becher photography, bio, ideas theartstory.

Their work can be linked to the neue sachlichkeit movement of the 1920s and to such masters of german photography as karl blossfeldt, august sander, and albert rengerpatzsch. In their typologiesseries of objective blackandwhite photosthe bechers sought to illuminate and catalogue the similarities and variations in design among particular building types, such as framework houses, water towers, and blast furnaces. Founders of the internationally acclaimed becher class at the dusseldorf art academy, they have received numerous awards, including the golden lion at the. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in grids. Bernd and hilla becher first began their stillongoing project of systematically photographing industrial structures water towers, blast furnaces.

Bernd and hilla becher german, partnership 19592007. Lets move away from painting and sculpture for a while, and have a look at some photography. She was one half of a photography duo with her husband bernd becher. In december 1968, the american artist robert smiths. Beginning in the early 1960s, bernd and hilla becher s collaboration produced over two hundred photographic collections of industrial buildings, such as smokestacks, water towers, and factories. Bernd and hilla becher have been photographing industrial structures for more than a decade. The bechers erect typologies of form that challenge the traditional meanings of art, architecture, and photo graphy. Bernd and hilla becher, winding towers, germany, france, britain. He studied at the academy of art in stuttgart and dusseldorf. In june 1966, the german artist hilla becher, who has died aged 81, set off, together with her husband bernd and their twoyearold son max, to south wales in. Hilla becher was a german artist born in 1931 in siegen, germany. Bernd and hilla becher worked collaboratively for nearly half a century documenting industrial german structures. Rendered with absolute precision in large format, mediumcontrast gelatin silver prints, each structure is centered against a cloudless.

Bernd and hilla becher two winding towers for sale. 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. Bernd and hilla becher preparation plants 2009 artsy. Bernd and hilla bechers industrial photography amusing. How ever, in contrast to bernd and hilla bechers work, ruscha looked on the picture more as a means towards demonstrating an idea or a method. The german artists bernd and hilla becher, who began working together in 1959 and married in 1961, are best known for their typologiesgrids of blackandwhite photographs of variant examples of a single type of industrial structure. The photographic prints are gelatin silver prints, a technology developed in the 1870s. Bernd becher 19312007 and hilla becher 19342015 worked together as photographers beginning in 1959. Bernd and hilla becher, water towers, 1972, nine black and white photographs, the eli and edythe l. Bernd becher august 20, 1931 june 22, 2007, and hilla becher september 2, 1934 october 10, 2015, were german conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. Bernd and hilla becher and andreas gursky academia. From 1976 to 1996, bernd becher taught photography at the dusseldorf academy. Online shopping from a great selection at books store.