9780262025652-0262025655-Typologies of Industrial Buildings

Typologies of Industrial Buildings

ISBN-13: 9780262025652
ISBN-10: 0262025655
Author: Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover 228 pages
FREE US shipping

Book details

ISBN-13: 9780262025652
ISBN-10: 0262025655
Author: Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover 228 pages

Summary

Typologies of Industrial Buildings (ISBN-13: 9780262025652 and ISBN-10: 0262025655), written by authors Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher, was published by The MIT Press in 2004. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Individual Artists (Individual Photographers, Photography & Video, Buildings, Architecture) books. You can easily purchase or rent Typologies of Industrial Buildings (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Individual Artists books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.13.

Description

An encyclopedic collection of all known Becher industrial studies, arranged by building type.

Bernd and Hilla Becher's photography can be considered conceptual art, typological study, and topological documentation. Their work can be linked to the Neue Sachlichkeit movement of the 1920s and to such masters of German photography as Karl Blossfeldt, August Sander, and Albert Renger-Patzsch. Their photographs of industrial structures, taken over the course of forty years, are the most important body of work in independent objective photography. A keynote of their contributions to "industrial archaeology" has been their creation of typologies of different types of buildings; this book, which accompanies a major retrospective exhibition, collects all known Becher studies of industrial building types and presents them as a visual encyclopedia.Each chapter is devoted to a different structure―water towers, coal bunkers, winding towers, breakers (ore, coal, and stone), lime kilns, grain elevators, blast furnaces, steel mills, and factory facades. These are organized according to typologies, most of which are presented as tableaux or suites of about twelve images each. The book contains close to 2000 individual images. The accompanying text by Armin Zweite is an essential art historical consideration of the Bechers' work. This ultimate Becher book stands as a capstone to the Bechers' unique body of work.

Rate this book Rate this book

We would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book