Tag: Bernd Becher

  • What Bernd and Hilla Becher Saw in the Remnants of Industry | The New Yorker

    What Bernd and Hilla Becher Saw in the Remnants of Industry | The New Yorker

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    What Bernd and Hilla Becher Saw in the Remnants of Industry The husband-and-wife photography team spent decades rigorously documenting the postwar architectural landscape—and captivated the art world along the way. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-bernd-and-hilla-becher-saw-in-the-remnants-of-industry In 1977, the critic Hilton Kramer wrote in the Times that the Bechers’ photographs “look like the sort of pictures…

  • AMERICAN SUBURB X: INTERVIEW: "Interview with Bernd and Hilla Becher (2002)"

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    In their first full-length interview ever, Bernd and Hilla Becher talk about the collaborative project that has occupied them for more than four decades: photographing and classifying the industrial structures that are even now vanishing from the modern landscape. Link: AMERICAN SUBURB X: INTERVIEW: “Interview with Bernd and Hilla Becher (2002)”