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Becher, Bernd; Becher, Hilla

 
9783829601733: Basic Forms of Industrial Building
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ISBN 10: 3829601735 ISBN 13: 9783829601733
Editorial: Schirmer/Mosel, 2005

Sinopsis

There is evidently no end to the awards and honors conferred on the works of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Having won the Golden Lion at the 1990 Venice Biennial, the Kaiserring in Goslar in 1995, and the Erasmus Prize, bestowed on them in Amsterdam in 2002, this autumn they have received the Hasselblad Foundation's "International Award" - a preeminent prize for services to the field of photography. The awards ceremony and the subsequent opening of an exhibition on the œuvre of Bernd and Hilla Becher will take place on November 20, 2004, at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg, Sweden. We are taking this opportunity to publish a special volume of Bernd and Hilla Becher's work, expanding our current series of 13 Becher editions. In the course of over 40 years of artistic endeavor, the Bechers have focused unrelentingly on the same subject matter, and have thus gradually compiled a photographic encyclopedia of industrial buildings and plants which is of unsurpassed importance. Basic Forms of Industrial Buildings brings together 61 photographs that constitute a representative selection from the broad range of subjects chosen by the Bechers in what are characteristic "portraits" of the objects in question. Subjects include cooling towers, water towers and winding towers, blast furnaces, lime kilns, gravel plants, grain elevators, gas tanks, and even details of the interiors of these industrial edifices.

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There is evidently no end to the awards and honors conferred on the works of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Having won the Golden Lion at the 1990 Venice Biennial, the Kaiserring in Goslar in 1995, and the Erasmus Prize, bestowed on them in Amsterdam in 2002, this autumn they have received the Hasselblad Foundation's "International Award" - a preeminent prize for services to the field of photography. The awards ceremony and the subsequent opening of an exhibition on the œuvre of Bernd and Hilla Becher will take place on November 20, 2004, at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg, Sweden. We are taking this opportunity to publish a special volume of Bernd and Hilla Becher's work, expanding our current series of 13 Becher editions. In the course of over 40 years of artistic endeavor, the Bechers have focused unrelentingly on the same subject matter, and have thus gradually compiled a photographic encyclopedia of industrial buildings and plants which is of unsurpassed importance. Basic Forms of Industrial Buildings brings together 61 photographs that constitute a representative selection from the broad range of subjects chosen by the Bechers in what are characteristic "portraits" of the objects in question. Subjects include cooling towers, water towers and winding towers, blast furnaces, lime kilns, gravel plants, grain elevators, gas tanks, and even details of the interiors of these industrial edifices.

Biografía del autor

Hilla Becher met Bernd Becher at the Kunskatademie Dusseldorf and first collaborated in 1959, while working as freelance photographers. Their lifelong commitment has been the systematic documentation of industrial buildings, including water towers and cooling towers, blast furnaces, coal mines and steel mines, gas tanks, and grain elevators. Starting in the late 60s, their work gained worldwide visibility via exhibition in such venues as the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London: Documenta, Kassel, Germany; Bienal de Sao Paulo; Venice Bienale; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. The Bechers were influential professors at the Dusseldorf Art Academy between 1976 and 1996, training a generation of photographers now known collectively as the Dusseldorf School. The Bechers work is represented in major collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Tate Gallery, London, and they have received numerous awards, among the the Erasmus Prize and the Hasselblad Award. Over a dozen monographs of their work have been published, all focusing on the many faces of industrial architecture.

Bernd and Hilla Becher have collaborated since 1959. Founders of the internationally acclaimed Becher class at the Dusseldorf Art Academy, they have received numerous awards, including the Golden Lion at the 1990 Venice Biennale and the 2002 Erasmus Award. Bernd Becher retired as Professor at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art in 1999.

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Editorial
Schirmer/Mosel
Año de publicación
2005
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
3829601735
ISBN 13 
9783829601733
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Tapa dura
Número de páginas
143
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