Bernd and Hilla Becher Photography, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory
WEBBlast Furnaces Sequence. This sequence of images shows blast furnaces, used to smelt various kinds of metals, from across Europe and the United States of America. ... establishing the school's photography program. Teaching, like photography, was largely collaborative; while Bernd Becher held the position, Hilla Becher worked alongside him ...
Bernd & Hilla Becher - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBEqually significant, it challenged the perceived gap between documentary and fine-art photography. Using a large-format view camera, the Bechers methodically recorded blast furnaces, winding towers, grain silos, cooling towers, and gas tanks with precision, elegance, and passion. Their rigorous, standardized practice allowed for comparative ...
Bernd and Hilla Becher - Artnet
WEBBernd Becher was born on August 20, 1931 in Siegen, Germany, and Hilla Wobeser was born on September 2, 1934 in Potsdam, Germany. They met one another while studying painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, their romance prompting a collaborative career. Their working methods and techniques influenced a generation of …
Arts & Grounds Tour of the Carrie Blast Furnaces
WEBLocation & Directions. The Carrie Blast Furnaces are located in the communities of Swissvale and Rankin in the Monongahela River Valley. The address for the National Historic Landmark is 801 Carrie Furnace Blvd., Pittsburgh, PA 15218. Get Directions.
Blast Furnaces, Heads, Frontal Views - The Art Institute of Chicago
WEBBlast Furnaces, Heads, Frontal Views. 1985. Bernd Becher (German, 1931–2007) and. Hilla Becher (German, 1934-2015) Bernd and Hilla Becher collaboratively photographed industrial structures throughout Europe and the United States in the mid-1950s, including cooling and water towers, grain elevators, framework houses, and blast furnaces.
Hilla and Bernd Becher’s Photographs Turned Industrial ... - Artsy
WEBApr 6, 2020 · Architecture had a magnetic appeal to both of them from an early age. While mentoring under photographer Walter Eichgrün in Potsdam, Hilla’s first subjects were local buildings. Meanwhile, in the once-industrial iron-ore mining region of Siegerland, a young Bernd grew up playing on the grounds of a blast furnace.
‘Blast Furnaces‘, Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher, 1969–95 | Tate
WEBWoman walking past blast furnaces, Grangetown, Teeside Chris Killip. 1976, printed 2012–13. Gas Tanks Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher. 1965–2009. Water Towers Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher. 1972–2009. Winding Towers (Britain) Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher. 1966–97. Moments of Decision/Indecision
Bernd & Hilla Becher - Blast Furnaces | Klat - Klatmagazine
WEBSHARES. 28 October 2013. For decades Bernd and Hilla Becher photographed industrial buildings and structures in Europe and the United States, helping to bring about a revolution in the aesthetics of photography that still influences the principal tendencies in the contemporary language of the medium. Their typologies of architecture in which ...
Bernd Becher & Hilla Becher: Blast Furnaces (orthoslogos.fr)
WEBBlast Furnaces 1969−95 comprises twenty-four gelatin silver print photographs taken by Bernd and Hilla Becher over a period of almost thirty years and printed in 2013 under the supervision of Hilla Becher.The prints are arranged in three rows of eight. Although they exist in an edition of five, the grouping and sequencing of the images in this particular work is unique, determined by Hilla ...
Blast Furnaces - Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher - Google Books
WEBTypological, repetitive, at times oddly humorous, Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs of industrial structures are, in their cumulative effect, profoundly moving. The Becher's serenely cool, disarmingly objective, and notoriously obsessive images of watertowers, gas tanks, grain elevators, blast furnaces, and mine heads have been taken over a period of almost thirty years, under overcast ...
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