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Book Description: The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. A fine copy in a near fine jacket that is lightly toned and has a small laminate peel. Bookseller Inventory # 000136

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Book Description: The MIT Press 1990-09-11, 1990. Hardcover. Book Condition: good. English language ed. 0262023113. Bookseller Inventory # 561927

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Book Description: The MIT Press, 1990. Hardcover. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. Slight edgewear to the dust jacket, otherwise very minor wear, the pages inside are clean with a tight binding. *a1. Bookseller Inventory # 0907030094

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Book Description: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts/ London, England, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. Large quarto. 15pp + 223 plates of images. Blue cloth, a Fine copy in a dust jacket that shows some very minor wear, and the upper edge of the dust jacket with just a hint of yellowing not uncommon to these books; almost as new. // "Since 1959 Bernd and Hilla Becher have been obsessively photographing imperiled industrial structures such as pithead frames, water towers, blast furnaces, cooling towers, gas tanks and silos. As documenters of the industrial era in Europe and the United States - an era now drawing to a close - they are not only photographers, but "industrial archaeologists", salvaging testimonies of past developments in the form of "readable" documents for posterity. At the same time, the Bechers could also be called conceptual artists, as their photographs reveal the meaning and transformative character of structure." Image or additional images available upon request. Bookseller Inventory # 52576

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Book Description: The MIT Press. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. 0262023113 Used, in good condition. Book only. May have interior marginalia or previous owner's name. Bookseller Inventory # 0262023113

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Book Description: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 1990. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1990. First edition (English), first printing. This first printing was limited to 2500 copies. Hardcover. Cloth, with dust jacket. Photographs and text (in English) by Bernd and Hilla Becher. Unpaginated with 223 duotone plates, and 6 additional duotone plates of typologies of blast furnaces (96 black and white illustrations). 11 3/8 x 10 5/8 inches. CONDITION: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket (very light stray surface indentations, visible only in raking light, and faint toning to the upper edge, else Fine). [Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).] From the publisher: "Typological, 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 skies, with a view camera that captures each detail and tonality of wood, concrete, brick, and steel. Blast Furnaces represents a continuation of, but also a counterpoint to the Bechers' earlier book Watertowers. There basic functional elements were hidden or clothed in disguises, whereas the 256 duotone prints included here record a purely functional and exposed architecture, built to contain heat, pressure, and accumulations of gases and unhindered by any outside constraints. The blast furnace is the symbol of the steel industry. Like other building types which attract the Bechers, it is also an endangered industrial species. Essentially giant, cone-shaped circular stoves, blast furnaces dominate the cityscapes of Pittsburgh, Youngstown, and Birmingham much as religious structures dominated medieval cities. These photographs, taken between 1961 and 1989, convey the unique characteristics, physical complexity, and eerie presence in the landscape of blast furnaces in Great Britain, Belgium, France, Austria, Germany, and the United States. Bernd and Hilla Becher [taught] at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. They began their collaborative photographic enterprise in 1957, when they did a study of workers' houses in their native Germany. The Bechers follow in a distinguished line of German photographers that includes August Sander, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and Werner Manz, all of whom contributed in different ways to the definition of "objective" photography. A selection of their photographs [was] on view throughout 1990 at the Dia Art Foundation galleries in New York, and they [represented] Germany in the 1990 Venice Biennale.". Bookseller Inventory # 108205

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