Bernd und Hilla Becher - Grundformen - 1999

EXCELLENT, SMALL PHOTOBOOK by Bernd and Hilla Becher.

WITH ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET.

EXCELLENT, VERY FRESH CONDITION.

"Throughout their forty-year collaboration, Bernd Becher (1931–2007) and Hilla Becher (1934–2015) repeatedly focused on the same subjects - headframes, blast furnaces, gas holders, water towers, and more-creating what is now an invaluable photographic encyclopedia of industrial architecture. Following their concept of typology and comparative seeing, the sixty-one photographs in this volume represent the full range of the Bechers' motifs through characteristic "portraits" of these structures."
(from the publisher)

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The Bechers are famous for 'Anonyme Skulpturen' ('Anonymous Sculptures', Martin Parr, The Photobook vol 2, page 266), for 'Water Towers', 'Blast Furnaces', 'Pennsylvania Coal Mine Tipples', 'Mineheads' and other fantastic artist books and are two of most influantial artists in the history of photography.

Bernhard 'Bernd' Becher (1931-2007), and Hilla Becher, born Wobeser (1934-2015), were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in grids. As the founders of what has come to be known as the 'Becher school' or the Düsseldorf School of Photography, they influenced generations of documentary photographers and artists in Germany and abroad. They were awarded the Erasmus Prize and the Hasselblad Award.

The Düsseldorf School of Photography refers to a group of photographers who studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the mid 1970s under the influential photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher.
Known for their rigorous devotion to the 1920s German tradition of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), the Bechers’ photographs were clear, black and white pictures of industrial archetypes (pitheads, water towers, coal bunkers).
Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth modified the approach of their teachers by applying new technical possibilities and a personal and contemporary vision, while retaining the documentary method their tutors propounded.

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Schirmer and Mosel, Munich. 1999.
Originally published in 1993 (in identical layout, size and content)

Hardcover with dustjacket. 153 x 212 mm. 158 pages. 64 photos in Duotone. Photos: Bernd and Hilla Becher. Text: Thierry de Duve. Text in German.

Condition:
Book and dustjacket well preserved, fresh and flawless, clean with no previous owner marks and with no foxing. Very light trace of use, no remarkable flaws or defects. Overall very fine condition.

Wonderful small Bernd and Hilla Becher book with original dustjacket - in great, better than usual condition.

The Bechers are famous for their artist books (Martin Parr, The Photobook, vol 2, page 268/269).
The Bechers - maker of " Anonyme Skulpturen " (Martin Parr, The Photobook vol 2, page 266).
The Bechers - famous for the " Becher-Class " or " Becher - School ". The Bechers - Teacher of Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Candida Höfer, Thomas Struth and others.