Industrial Landscapes
Edition: English language ed edition
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: June 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780262025072
Subjects: Industry & Industrial Studies; Photographs: collections; Landscape Architecture And Design; Photography Of Specific Subjects; Photography; Photo Essays; Architectural & Industrial; Individual Photographer; Photoessays & Documentaries; Becher, Bernd; Photography / General; General; Landscape; 1931-; 1931-2007; Becher, Bernd,; Becher, Hilla; Photography, Industrial
Description: "Bernd and Hilla Becher have profoundly influenced the international photography world over the past several decades. Their unique genre, which falls somewhere between topological documentation and conceptual art, is in line with the aesthetics of such early-twentieth-century masters of German photography as Karl Blossfeldt, Germaine Krull, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and August Sander.".

"Industrial Landscapes introduces a new aspect to the Bechers' photography, one that will surprise connoisseurs of their work. Whereas their previously published works concentrated on isolated industrial objects, they now show huge industrial sites amid their natural surroundings. They move away from the objective, severe image to present slightly more narrative, interpretive images of the industrial environment as a whole.

Although the photographs in industrial landscapes were taken over the past forty years, they are published here for the first time."--BOOK JACKET.