Gas Tanks

Name: Gas Tanks
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ISBN: 9780262023610

ISBN-10: 026202361X

ISBN-13: 9780262023610

Edition: 1993

Authors: Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher

List price: $65.00

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The Bechers' industrial vision has become an essential part of the way we see today; their head-on, deadpan photographs of pithead gear and water towers and blast furnaces have for more than 30 years expressed a serenely cool, rigorous approach that reduces the individual structures they photograph to variations on an ideal form. In this, their latest work, the Bechers' present four principally different forms of gas holders or gas tanks in 140 photographs taken during the years 1963-1992 in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, and the United States. The subjects are photographed under overcast skies that eliminate expressive variations in lighting; the Bechers make no attempt to…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/7/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Size: 10.75" wide x 11.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.596
Language: English

Pierre-Andrï¿½ Chiappori is Professor of Economics at Columbia University.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 Dï¿½sseldorf Academy of Art in 1999.