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Fachwerkhäuser

by Bernd & Hilla Becher

Photographs: Bernd und Hilla Becher

Text: Martina Dobbe

Publisher: Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

72 pages

Year: 2001

ISBN: 3935874006

Price: 35 €

Comments: Softcover. German. 21 x 21 cm

Partners in both life and art, Bernd and Hilla Becher rank amongst the pioneers of conceptual photography. They met in the late 1950s: Bernd was studying painting and typography and Hilla photography. As early as 1959 they began taking documentary photographs of German industrial architecture, which was then rapidly falling into disuse, and became fascinated by the process. Their quest began in the Ruhr region, where Bernd’s father had worked in the steel and mining industries. They were attracted by the uniformity of the buildings and the design sensibility that informed them. This book is about their work "Framework Houses" in the Siegen District in Germany.

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Fachwerkhäuser

by Bernd & Hilla Becher

Photographs: Bernd und Hilla Becher

Text: Martina Dobbe

Publisher: Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

72 pages

Year: 2001

ISBN: 3935874006

Price: 35 €

Comments: Softcover. German. 21 x 21 cm

Partners in both life and art, Bernd and Hilla Becher rank amongst the pioneers of conceptual photography. They met in the late 1950s: Bernd was studying painting and typography and Hilla photography. As early as 1959 they began taking documentary photographs of German industrial architecture, which was then rapidly falling into disuse, and became fascinated by the process. Their quest began in the Ruhr region, where Bernd’s father had worked in the steel and mining industries. They were attracted by the uniformity of the buildings and the design sensibility that informed them. This book is about their work "Framework Houses" in the Siegen District in Germany.

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