Bernhard and Hilla Becher: Anonyme Skulpturen [SIGNED]: Eine Typologie Technischer Bauten (Anonymous Sculptures: A Typology of Technical Buildings)

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First edition, first printing. Signed ("B+H Becher") in black ink on the title page by Hilla Becher. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth-covered boards with title stamped in white on cover and spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs and brief descriptive texts (in English, French and German) by Bernd and Hilla Becher. Includes photographs of lime-kilns, cooling-towers, blast-furnaces, winding-towers (mineheads), water towers, gas-holders and silos. Unpaginated (236 pp.), with 194 black and white plates. 11-1/4 x 9 inches. Out of print. An extremely scarce and important early major monograph by the Bechers. CONDITION: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket (small abrasion on lower rear dust jacket edge, slight edge wear; no tears, chips or other flaws). A beautiful very rare signed copy. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).] From Martin Parr and Gerry Badger: "The extensive series that the Bechers later made for Schirmer/Mosel and MIT Press.while preserving the aesthetic rigour of their earlier work, emphasizes the documentary aspect, and has a particular archival, historical value. Anonyme Skulpturen, though it hardly neglects the informational importance of their practice, seems much more about making an aesthetic statement and establishing the artists' position in late twentieth-century art. All their books are polemical, but this represents their primary artistic credo. For those who are more interested in the Bechers as artists than as industrial archaeologists, this is the one to have on one's shelf." Signed by Author. N° de ref. de la librería 107252

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Dirección: Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.

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