Wassertürme-Kugeln

細節

Bernd & Hilla Becher (b. 1931 & b. 1934)
Wassertürme-Kugeln
signed 'Bernd Becher Hilla Becher' (on the reverse of the first photograph) and numbered consecutively (1-6) (on the reverse of each)
six gelatin silver prints
each: 17¾ x 21½ in. (45 x 55 cm.)
Executed in 1997.

來源

Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne

展覽

Duisburg, Museum Küppersmühle-Sammlung Grothe, Tomorrow For Ever, October 1999-January 2000
Duisburg, Museum Küppersmühle-Sammlung Grothe, Photo und Papier, February-June 2000

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拍品專文

In 1969, Bernd and Hilla Becher wrote of their photographic style: "it is not our intention to make relics of old industrial buildings, but we would like to produce a more or less unbroken chain of the various forms." Beginning in the early 1970's, their series of photographs of water towers and mine heads or 'anonymous sculptures', attracted much attention at exhibitions of Minimal and Conceptual Art. Always executed in black and white, as color would needlessly detract attention from the sculptural form of each structure, the Becher's dispense with all technical trickery, compositional elements and photographic aids. Each location is carefully chosen and the timing planned so that the sky is always the same colour. Every image is taken on long exposure and printed the same size. This rigorously even-handed approach allows the sculptural power of the buildings to stand out against a neutral, grey sky creating a highly subjective image, with a hint of social commentary.