Bernd et Hila Becher - Blast Furnaces - 1990

Welcome to this special sale of books by authors listed in the Photobook by Parr & Badger. 'Blast Furnaces' is listed in Photobook, volume I, pages 268-269.

272 pages and 223 black and white photographs reproduced in bichromie, presentation text in English, navy blue toiled binding with the title embossed in gray on the spine, illustrated jacket.

To view the photographic series in full screen, double-click on a photograph, then you can return to the standard display at any time.

Blast furnaces testify to a purely functional and apparent architecture, designed to contain heat, pressure, and gas accumulations, without any external constraints. The blast furnace is the symbol of the steel industry. Like other types of buildings that fascinate the Becher brothers, it constitutes a threatened industrial species. These gigantic circular conical furnaces dominate the urban landscapes of Pittsburgh, Youngstown, and Birmingham, much like religious buildings that once dominated medieval cities. These photographs, taken between 1961 and 1989, attest to the unique characteristics, physical complexity, and strange presence of blast furnaces in the landscapes of Great Britain, Belgium, France, Austria, Germany, and the United States.

Since 1959, Bernd and Hilla Becher have passionately photographed disappearing industrial structures such as mine headframes, water towers, blast furnaces, cooling towers, gasometers, and silos. Witnesses to the industrial era in Europe and the United States – an era that is coming to an end – they are not only photographers but also 'industrial archaeologists,' preserving testimonies of the past in the form of documents accessible to posterity. They could also be described as conceptual artists.

Exemplary in excellent condition. A book from my personal collection, kept with the utmost care. Protected shipping with reinforced packaging and guaranteed international postal tracking. For multiple purchases, group shipping is possible with a refund of any excess postal fees paid via Paypal.

1.9 kg excluding packaging