9780262023610
Gas Tanks
Bernd Becher; Hilla Becher
ISBN 13: 9780262023610
Publisher: Mit Pr
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Hardcover
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The Bechers' industrial vision has become an essential part of the way we see today; their head-on, deadpan photographs of pithead gear, water towers, and blast furnaces have for more than 30 years expressed a serenely cool, rigorous approach that reduces the individual structures they photograph to variations on an ideal form. In this, their latest work, the Bechers present four principally different forms of gas holders or gas tanks in 102 photographs taken during the years 1963-1992 in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, and the United States. The subjects are photographed under overcast skies that eliminate expressive variations in lighting; the Bechers make no attempt to analyze or explain them. Captions contain only the barest of information: time and place. On the subject of gas holders, the Bechers limit their remarks to a minimal functional description, leaving the esthetic dimension of their subject to the photographs themselves: much of the fascination of these photographs lies in the fact that these unadorned metallic structures, presumably built with little concern for their visual impact, are almost invariably striking in appearance. Bernd and Hilla Becher teach at the Dusseldorf 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.
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"[The Bechers] erect typologies of form that challenge the traditional meanings of art, architecture, and photography."
New York Times Book Review
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Book Description: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1993. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1993. First edition (English), first printing. Hardcover. Fine navy blue linen cloth, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs and text by Bernd and Hilla Becher. 110 pp. with 102 duotone plates. 11 3/8 x 10 5/8 inches. CONDITION: Fine in Fine dust jacket. A Near Mint copy. 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 Bechers' serenely cool, disarmingly objective, and notoriously obsessive images of water towers, gas tanks, grain elevators, blast furnaces, and mineheads have been taken over a period of almost [forty] years, under overcast skies, with a view camera that captures each detail and tonality of wood, concrete, brick and steel.". Bookseller Inventory # 108206 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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