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Bernd & Hilla Becher, Blast Furnace, Steubenville, Ohio, USA

Bernd & Hilla BecherBlast Furnace, Steubenville, Ohio, USA, 1980

Silver-gelatin print

60 × 50 cm

About the artist

Bernd & Hilla Becher Bernd (1931–2007) and Hilla Becher (1934–2015) are considered the most influential German photographers of the post-war period. Over the past 50 years, the couple and artist duo captured the aesthetic of disappearing industrial facilities, often making the overlooked structures visible to viewers for the first time. Their strict adherence to particular formal principles and their typological approach gave rise to the idea of photography as conceptual art. The Bechers taught at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf and shaped the work of an entire generation of photographers, including Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth. Sprüth Magers represents the artist couple’s Estate.

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