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Hilla and Bernd Becher invented a new genre of photography
German photographer Hilla Becher discusses her interest in capturing the changing industrial landscape on film, a project she, with and her husband and collaborator, Bernd, began in 1959. Their seemingly straightforward black-and-white pictures of water towers, coal tipples, gas holders, and other structures are in fact products of the Bechers’ radical, decades-long careers at the intersection of documentary photography, design, and Conceptual art.
This video was made shortly before her passing in 2015.
published: 28 Aug 2018
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The Photography of Hilla & Bernd Becher | The importance of memory.
If you remember the video where we talked about the photography of David Lynch then you know why we have this video today :) The Bechers were an inspiration for many artists and today we have a look at their amazing photography. Thank you so much for watching & make sure you check the links in the description to learn of ways to support their art.
Video Breakdown
00:00 - Intro
1:11 - Hilla & Bernd Becher
03:39 - Rowing against Time & The Importance of Memory
6:09 - What can we learn from formalism?
06:52 - The Becher school
More on Hilla & Bernd
http://bernd-hilla.becher-film.com/
http://www.artnet.com/artists/bernd-and-hilla-becher/
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/bernd-becher-and-hilla-becher-718/who-are-bechers
Affordable books on & about their work (some affiliate links)
B...
published: 25 May 2021
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Bernd & Hilla Becher Virtual Opening | Met Exhibitions
Join Jeff Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, for a virtual tour of Bernd & Hilla Becher, a retrospective celebrating the renowned German artists, Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931–2007; 1934–2015), who changed the course of late twentieth-century photography. Working as a rare artist couple, they focused on a single subject: the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America that fueled the modern era. Their seemingly objective style recalled nineteenth- and early twentieth-century precedents but also resonated with the serial approach of contemporary Minimalism and Conceptual art. Equally significant, it challenged the perceived gap between documentary and fine-art photography.
Using a large-format view camera, the Bechers m...
published: 28 Jul 2022
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Bernd and Hilla Becher's industrial art
To photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, the rapidly vanishing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America were works of art. The German couple's documentary images of transmission towers, gas tanks, blast furnaces and smokestacks – structures that signified the end of an industrial era – are being celebrated in a comprehensive retrospective now at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Lee Cowan offers us a tour.
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published: 26 Mar 2023
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Bernd & Hilla Becher (2006). Version française. English subs. Doc on the great German photographers.
Documentaire de Marianne Kepfer 'Man muss sich beeilen, alles verschwindet'.
Ce couple de photographes allemands, Bernd (1931-2007) et Hilla (1934-2015) vont rapidement s’intéresser à l’architecture industrielle et mettre en place une méthode d’approche cohérente.
La photographie s’imposera à Bernd Becher par nécessité plus que par choix artistique : la fascination et le respect qu’il porte aux hauts fourneaux de la Ruhr vont lui dicter une méthode d’enregistrement, méthode à laquelle il consacrera le reste de sa vie dès les années 60’. Il est rapidement assisté de Hilla Wobeser, qui devient sa femme et collaboratrice. Ensemble, il parcourrons le monde de manière systématique avec une curiosité sans cesse renouvelée pour les structures industrielles.
La fascination de Bernd Becher pour l’...
published: 08 Apr 2021
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The Bechers in Ohio, 1987 | From the Vaults
This short, silent film documents a typical day or two in the life of the Bechers while on a road trip through the American heartland. Filmed in 1987 by their son, Max, and edited by him in 2022 for the exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher, the footage offers an enchanting glimpse of the artists’ working lives. It records them driving their ubiquitous VW bus, moving heavy equipment in and out of a motel room, eating a quick lunch, taking a nap, positioning the camera to photograph a grain elevator, and even manipulating certain aspects of the physical environment to suit their needs.
Learn more about the exhibition here: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/becher
Collection of Max Becher
© Max Becher
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published: 01 Nov 2022
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Bernd & Hilla Becher Basic Forms (Silos Cooling Towers Blast Furnaces) HD 1080p
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"In the history of photography, their work is mentioned in the same breath as Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, Karl Blossfeldt and August Sander, with whom the Bechers share a passion for the documentary and narrative qualities of the medium. Culturally, their brilliant black and white photographs of industrial buildings are rooted in the history of architecture and engineering, where their work provided an early research tool and resource for industrial archaeologists seeking to broaden the scope of architectural conservation.
With their photographs of water towers and winding towers, blast furnaces, silos and gas tan...
published: 28 Aug 2021
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Bernd and Hilla Becher, Hauser & Wirth Zürich
Olivier Renaud-Clément talks about the exhibition 'Bernd and Hilla Becher' at Hauser & Wirth Zürich, 14 October – 22 December 2017
published: 05 Dec 2017
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Bernd and Hilla and the Photographic Afterlife of Heavy Industry | MetSpeaks
Artists Bernd and Hilla Becher focused on a single subject: the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America that fueled the modern era. Their photographic typologies of industrial architecture can be seen as, among many other things, a memorial to places of modern industry and the monoliths it imposed on the landscape. Join scholars and writers for a discussion about interpreting these photographs in the present day and how they might be perceived in the future.
Lucy Sante, writer, cultural critic, and scholar
Owen Hatherley, Culture Editor, Tribune
Jeff L. Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, The Met
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher
The exhibition is made possible by Joyce Frank Mensc...
published: 20 Oct 2022
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Düsseldorfer Fotoschule - Die neue deutsche Objektivität
Bernd und Hilla Becher, Begründer der Düsseldorfer Fotoschule, sorgten mit ihren schnörkellosen und nach Objektivität strebenden Bildern für grundlegende Umwälzungen in der fotografischen Praxis. Absolventen wie Thomas Ruff und Andreas Gursky, die durch diesen Stil entscheidend geprägt wurden, zählen zu den einflussreichsten Fotografen des 20. Jahrhunderts (Stan Naumann, Dokumentation Frankreich 2011).
Teil der Playlist "Düsseldorfer Fotoschule: Becher, Gursky, Ruff, Struth, ..." hier: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?action_edit=1&list=PLMl2o_aF06BuZvklo3s6JvH1tf1PIW71t
published: 30 Jan 2014
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Hilla and Bernd Becher invented a new genre of photography
German photographer Hilla Becher discusses her interest in capturing the changing industrial landscape on film, a project she, with and her husband and collabor...
German photographer Hilla Becher discusses her interest in capturing the changing industrial landscape on film, a project she, with and her husband and collaborator, Bernd, began in 1959. Their seemingly straightforward black-and-white pictures of water towers, coal tipples, gas holders, and other structures are in fact products of the Bechers’ radical, decades-long careers at the intersection of documentary photography, design, and Conceptual art.
This video was made shortly before her passing in 2015.
https://wn.com/Hilla_And_Bernd_Becher_Invented_A_New_Genre_Of_Photography
German photographer Hilla Becher discusses her interest in capturing the changing industrial landscape on film, a project she, with and her husband and collaborator, Bernd, began in 1959. Their seemingly straightforward black-and-white pictures of water towers, coal tipples, gas holders, and other structures are in fact products of the Bechers’ radical, decades-long careers at the intersection of documentary photography, design, and Conceptual art.
This video was made shortly before her passing in 2015.
- published: 28 Aug 2018
- views: 32280
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The Photography of Hilla & Bernd Becher | The importance of memory.
If you remember the video where we talked about the photography of David Lynch then you know why we have this video today :) The Bechers were an inspiration for...
If you remember the video where we talked about the photography of David Lynch then you know why we have this video today :) The Bechers were an inspiration for many artists and today we have a look at their amazing photography. Thank you so much for watching & make sure you check the links in the description to learn of ways to support their art.
Video Breakdown
00:00 - Intro
1:11 - Hilla & Bernd Becher
03:39 - Rowing against Time & The Importance of Memory
6:09 - What can we learn from formalism?
06:52 - The Becher school
More on Hilla & Bernd
http://bernd-hilla.becher-film.com/
http://www.artnet.com/artists/bernd-and-hilla-becher/
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/bernd-becher-and-hilla-becher-718/who-are-bechers
Affordable books on & about their work (some affiliate links)
Bernd & Hilla Becher: Basic Forms by Thierry De Duve
https://amzn.to/3tVakey
Bernd Becher & Hilla Becher: Coal Mines and Steel Mills
https://amzn.to/3w6Ui2T
Bernd Becher & Hilla Becher: Framework Houses
https://amzn.to/3eTioYU
Footage Sources
Industrial Landscape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IELOD-OPlgE
Post War Germany
https://youtu.be/AhyifvjSHbU
Hilla and Bernd Becher invented a new genre of photography
https://youtu.be/v-1O0NxIWDc
Song(s) / Artist(s)
Self by Beatowski (Licensed)
Links to my work
https://www.thopper.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/tffhopper/
Disclaimer
This video its an incentive to educate viewers about the brilliant careers of Hilla & Bernd Becher and their impact in the photography & art worlds, as well as, an incentive to support their photography career, thus falling into the category of fair use copyright usage.
Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.
Bernd & Hilla Becher
🇩🇪 Tatiana entschuldigt sich aufrichtig für jede deutsche falsche Aussprache von Namen und Orten. Sie hat ihr Bestes versucht. Und ja, wir haben das mit Google übersetzt. 🇩🇪
Diane
The Photography of Hilla & Bernd Becher, the importance of memory.
May 2021
https://wn.com/The_Photography_Of_Hilla_Bernd_Becher_|_The_Importance_Of_Memory.
If you remember the video where we talked about the photography of David Lynch then you know why we have this video today :) The Bechers were an inspiration for many artists and today we have a look at their amazing photography. Thank you so much for watching & make sure you check the links in the description to learn of ways to support their art.
Video Breakdown
00:00 - Intro
1:11 - Hilla & Bernd Becher
03:39 - Rowing against Time & The Importance of Memory
6:09 - What can we learn from formalism?
06:52 - The Becher school
More on Hilla & Bernd
http://bernd-hilla.becher-film.com/
http://www.artnet.com/artists/bernd-and-hilla-becher/
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/bernd-becher-and-hilla-becher-718/who-are-bechers
Affordable books on & about their work (some affiliate links)
Bernd & Hilla Becher: Basic Forms by Thierry De Duve
https://amzn.to/3tVakey
Bernd Becher & Hilla Becher: Coal Mines and Steel Mills
https://amzn.to/3w6Ui2T
Bernd Becher & Hilla Becher: Framework Houses
https://amzn.to/3eTioYU
Footage Sources
Industrial Landscape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IELOD-OPlgE
Post War Germany
https://youtu.be/AhyifvjSHbU
Hilla and Bernd Becher invented a new genre of photography
https://youtu.be/v-1O0NxIWDc
Song(s) / Artist(s)
Self by Beatowski (Licensed)
Links to my work
https://www.thopper.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/tffhopper/
Disclaimer
This video its an incentive to educate viewers about the brilliant careers of Hilla & Bernd Becher and their impact in the photography & art worlds, as well as, an incentive to support their photography career, thus falling into the category of fair use copyright usage.
Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.
Bernd & Hilla Becher
🇩🇪 Tatiana entschuldigt sich aufrichtig für jede deutsche falsche Aussprache von Namen und Orten. Sie hat ihr Bestes versucht. Und ja, wir haben das mit Google übersetzt. 🇩🇪
Diane
The Photography of Hilla & Bernd Becher, the importance of memory.
May 2021
- published: 25 May 2021
- views: 22471
23:04
Bernd & Hilla Becher Virtual Opening | Met Exhibitions
Join Jeff Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, for a virtual tour of Bernd & Hilla Becher, a retrospective celebrating ...
Join Jeff Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, for a virtual tour of Bernd & Hilla Becher, a retrospective celebrating the renowned German artists, Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931–2007; 1934–2015), who changed the course of late twentieth-century photography. Working as a rare artist couple, they focused on a single subject: the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America that fueled the modern era. Their seemingly objective style recalled nineteenth- and early twentieth-century precedents but also resonated with the serial approach of contemporary Minimalism and Conceptual art. Equally significant, it challenged the perceived gap between documentary and fine-art photography.
Using a large-format view camera, the Bechers methodically recorded blast furnaces, winding towers, grain silos, cooling towers, and gas tanks with precision, elegance, and passion. Their rigorous, standardized practice allowed for comparative analyses of structures that they exhibited in grids of between four and thirty photographs. They described these formal arrangements as “typologies” and the buildings themselves as “anonymous sculpture.”
The exhibition celebrates the Bechers’ remarkable achievement and is the first ever organized with full access to the artists’ personal collection of working materials and their comprehensive archive.
The exhibition is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel, the Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation, the Edward John & Patricia Rosenwald Foundation, and Linda Macklowe.
It is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Studio Bernd & Hilla Becher and Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur.
Additional support is provided by the Mellon Foundation.
Subscribe for new content from The Met: https://www.youtube.com/user/metmuseum
#TheMet #Art #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt #Museum
© 2022 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://wn.com/Bernd_Hilla_Becher_Virtual_Opening_|_Met_Exhibitions
Join Jeff Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, for a virtual tour of Bernd & Hilla Becher, a retrospective celebrating the renowned German artists, Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931–2007; 1934–2015), who changed the course of late twentieth-century photography. Working as a rare artist couple, they focused on a single subject: the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America that fueled the modern era. Their seemingly objective style recalled nineteenth- and early twentieth-century precedents but also resonated with the serial approach of contemporary Minimalism and Conceptual art. Equally significant, it challenged the perceived gap between documentary and fine-art photography.
Using a large-format view camera, the Bechers methodically recorded blast furnaces, winding towers, grain silos, cooling towers, and gas tanks with precision, elegance, and passion. Their rigorous, standardized practice allowed for comparative analyses of structures that they exhibited in grids of between four and thirty photographs. They described these formal arrangements as “typologies” and the buildings themselves as “anonymous sculpture.”
The exhibition celebrates the Bechers’ remarkable achievement and is the first ever organized with full access to the artists’ personal collection of working materials and their comprehensive archive.
The exhibition is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel, the Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation, the Edward John & Patricia Rosenwald Foundation, and Linda Macklowe.
It is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Studio Bernd & Hilla Becher and Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur.
Additional support is provided by the Mellon Foundation.
Subscribe for new content from The Met: https://www.youtube.com/user/metmuseum
#TheMet #Art #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt #Museum
© 2022 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- published: 28 Jul 2022
- views: 26016
2:34
Bernd and Hilla Becher's industrial art
To photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, the rapidly vanishing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America were works of art. The German couple'...
To photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, the rapidly vanishing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America were works of art. The German couple's documentary images of transmission towers, gas tanks, blast furnaces and smokestacks – structures that signified the end of an industrial era – are being celebrated in a comprehensive retrospective now at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Lee Cowan offers us a tour.
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https://wn.com/Bernd_And_Hilla_Becher's_Industrial_Art
To photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, the rapidly vanishing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America were works of art. The German couple's documentary images of transmission towers, gas tanks, blast furnaces and smokestacks – structures that signified the end of an industrial era – are being celebrated in a comprehensive retrospective now at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Lee Cowan offers us a tour.
"CBS Sunday Morning" features stories on the arts, music, nature, entertainment, sports, history, science and Americana, and highlights unique human accomplishments and achievements. Check local listings for CBS Sunday Morning broadcast times.
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Get more of "CBS Sunday Morning": http://cbsn.ws/1PlMmAz
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- published: 26 Mar 2023
- views: 23526
51:59
Bernd & Hilla Becher (2006). Version française. English subs. Doc on the great German photographers.
Documentaire de Marianne Kepfer 'Man muss sich beeilen, alles verschwindet'.
Ce couple de photographes allemands, Bernd (1931-2007) et Hilla (1934-2015) vont r...
Documentaire de Marianne Kepfer 'Man muss sich beeilen, alles verschwindet'.
Ce couple de photographes allemands, Bernd (1931-2007) et Hilla (1934-2015) vont rapidement s’intéresser à l’architecture industrielle et mettre en place une méthode d’approche cohérente.
La photographie s’imposera à Bernd Becher par nécessité plus que par choix artistique : la fascination et le respect qu’il porte aux hauts fourneaux de la Ruhr vont lui dicter une méthode d’enregistrement, méthode à laquelle il consacrera le reste de sa vie dès les années 60’. Il est rapidement assisté de Hilla Wobeser, qui devient sa femme et collaboratrice. Ensemble, il parcourrons le monde de manière systématique avec une curiosité sans cesse renouvelée pour les structures industrielles.
La fascination de Bernd Becher pour l’architecture industrielle est d’abord affective. Elle provient d’une filiation d’ouvriers, qui ont vécu parmi, par et pour le travail en usine. Mais il aura l’intuition qu’il doit approcher ces objets énormes et complexes avec distance. Malgré sa proximité avec les formes de l’industrie, il en connait au début de sa carrière très peu la fonction. Son travail sera donc naturellement une quête, le dépassement de la fascination et de la soumission héritée de ses pères vers la compréhension de la relation entre formes et fonctions, et la recherche d’images capables de l’y aider.
Une autre filiation surgit alors : celle de la nouvelle objectivité (Neuen Sachlichkeit), qui fit les beau jour de la photographie allemande des années 30. La nouvelle objectivité fait partie des mouvements de rejet du pictorialisme, qui mèneront à une affirmation de la photographie comme art pour ses vertus descriptives autant que formelles. Albert Renger-Patzsch, fer de lance de la nouvelle objectivité, donnera avec son livre "le monde est beau" une vision typiquement moderne de la beauté : images d’objets produits en masse (fer à repasser, pièces mécaniques) y côtoient images de la nature.
Les Becher, eux aussi, se distinguent de leur prédécesseurs : l’après guerre en Allemagne est douloureux, et la fuite d’une réalité très dure (tout un pays à reconstruire sur les ruines, dans la honte du nazisme) passe en photographie par la Subjektive Fotografie menée par Otto Steiner. Expériences graphiques, solarisation, effets divers, auxquels les Becher vont opposer une photographie objective, c’est à dire donnant la place la plus grande à son objet. En art, le minimalisme est en train de faire son chemin.
Les moyens utilisés par les Becher pour atteindre le plus possible cette objectivité sont multiples :
- la distance : loin des gros plans abstractisants, les Becher privilégient des vues d’ensemble.
- la mi-hauteur : la caméra est placée de manière à éviter la contre plongée aussi bien que la plongée. L’objet photographié est dans un rapport d’égal à égal, ni dominant ni dominé.
- le temps gris : l’absence de lumière trop franche permet un meilleur modelé des volumes, et une lecture optimale de l’image en termes de profondeur et de détails.
- le grand format : le 6X9 cm et le 4X5 inches permettent un niveau de détail élevé
- la taxinomie ou typologie : associées entre elle, les photographies permettent des comparaisons, perdent le statut d’icône.
De manière générale, le systématisme de la démarche des Becher, leur volonté d’exhaustivité, va les mener à constituer une collection impressionnante à l’intérêt aussi bien historique qu’esthétique. Il recevront, pour finir de brouiller les pistes, un prix de sculpture à la biennale de Venise en 1990.
Bernd Becher devient professeur à la Kunstakademie de Dusseldorf en 1976, et la première génération d’étudiants qu’il formera avec sa femme (partie prenante de l’enseignement de son mari) sera prestigieuse : Gursky, Ruff, Struth, Höfer.
(photonumerique.codedrops.net. 20 octobre 2007)
Includes contributions from their Düsseldorf School pupils Götz Diergarten, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Jörg Sasse, Matthias Koch, Candida Höfer, Laurenz Berges.
'Meeting as students at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1957, Bernd and Hilla Becher first collaborated on photographing and documenting the disappearing German industrial architecture in 1959. The Ruhr Valley, where Becher's family had worked in the steel and mining industries, was their initial focus. They were fascinated by the similar shapes in which certain buildings were designed. After collating thousands of pictures of individual structures, they noticed that the various edifices – of cooling towers, gas tanks and coal bunkers, for instance – shared many distinctive formal qualities. In addition, they were intrigued by the fact that so many of these industrial buildings seemed to have been built with a great deal of attention toward design. Together, the Bechers went out with a large 8 x 10-inch view camera and photographed these buildings from a number of different angles, but always with a straightforward "objective" point of view'.
(wiki)
https://wn.com/Bernd_Hilla_Becher_(2006)._Version_Française._English_Subs._Doc_On_The_Great_German_Photographers.
Documentaire de Marianne Kepfer 'Man muss sich beeilen, alles verschwindet'.
Ce couple de photographes allemands, Bernd (1931-2007) et Hilla (1934-2015) vont rapidement s’intéresser à l’architecture industrielle et mettre en place une méthode d’approche cohérente.
La photographie s’imposera à Bernd Becher par nécessité plus que par choix artistique : la fascination et le respect qu’il porte aux hauts fourneaux de la Ruhr vont lui dicter une méthode d’enregistrement, méthode à laquelle il consacrera le reste de sa vie dès les années 60’. Il est rapidement assisté de Hilla Wobeser, qui devient sa femme et collaboratrice. Ensemble, il parcourrons le monde de manière systématique avec une curiosité sans cesse renouvelée pour les structures industrielles.
La fascination de Bernd Becher pour l’architecture industrielle est d’abord affective. Elle provient d’une filiation d’ouvriers, qui ont vécu parmi, par et pour le travail en usine. Mais il aura l’intuition qu’il doit approcher ces objets énormes et complexes avec distance. Malgré sa proximité avec les formes de l’industrie, il en connait au début de sa carrière très peu la fonction. Son travail sera donc naturellement une quête, le dépassement de la fascination et de la soumission héritée de ses pères vers la compréhension de la relation entre formes et fonctions, et la recherche d’images capables de l’y aider.
Une autre filiation surgit alors : celle de la nouvelle objectivité (Neuen Sachlichkeit), qui fit les beau jour de la photographie allemande des années 30. La nouvelle objectivité fait partie des mouvements de rejet du pictorialisme, qui mèneront à une affirmation de la photographie comme art pour ses vertus descriptives autant que formelles. Albert Renger-Patzsch, fer de lance de la nouvelle objectivité, donnera avec son livre "le monde est beau" une vision typiquement moderne de la beauté : images d’objets produits en masse (fer à repasser, pièces mécaniques) y côtoient images de la nature.
Les Becher, eux aussi, se distinguent de leur prédécesseurs : l’après guerre en Allemagne est douloureux, et la fuite d’une réalité très dure (tout un pays à reconstruire sur les ruines, dans la honte du nazisme) passe en photographie par la Subjektive Fotografie menée par Otto Steiner. Expériences graphiques, solarisation, effets divers, auxquels les Becher vont opposer une photographie objective, c’est à dire donnant la place la plus grande à son objet. En art, le minimalisme est en train de faire son chemin.
Les moyens utilisés par les Becher pour atteindre le plus possible cette objectivité sont multiples :
- la distance : loin des gros plans abstractisants, les Becher privilégient des vues d’ensemble.
- la mi-hauteur : la caméra est placée de manière à éviter la contre plongée aussi bien que la plongée. L’objet photographié est dans un rapport d’égal à égal, ni dominant ni dominé.
- le temps gris : l’absence de lumière trop franche permet un meilleur modelé des volumes, et une lecture optimale de l’image en termes de profondeur et de détails.
- le grand format : le 6X9 cm et le 4X5 inches permettent un niveau de détail élevé
- la taxinomie ou typologie : associées entre elle, les photographies permettent des comparaisons, perdent le statut d’icône.
De manière générale, le systématisme de la démarche des Becher, leur volonté d’exhaustivité, va les mener à constituer une collection impressionnante à l’intérêt aussi bien historique qu’esthétique. Il recevront, pour finir de brouiller les pistes, un prix de sculpture à la biennale de Venise en 1990.
Bernd Becher devient professeur à la Kunstakademie de Dusseldorf en 1976, et la première génération d’étudiants qu’il formera avec sa femme (partie prenante de l’enseignement de son mari) sera prestigieuse : Gursky, Ruff, Struth, Höfer.
(photonumerique.codedrops.net. 20 octobre 2007)
Includes contributions from their Düsseldorf School pupils Götz Diergarten, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Jörg Sasse, Matthias Koch, Candida Höfer, Laurenz Berges.
'Meeting as students at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1957, Bernd and Hilla Becher first collaborated on photographing and documenting the disappearing German industrial architecture in 1959. The Ruhr Valley, where Becher's family had worked in the steel and mining industries, was their initial focus. They were fascinated by the similar shapes in which certain buildings were designed. After collating thousands of pictures of individual structures, they noticed that the various edifices – of cooling towers, gas tanks and coal bunkers, for instance – shared many distinctive formal qualities. In addition, they were intrigued by the fact that so many of these industrial buildings seemed to have been built with a great deal of attention toward design. Together, the Bechers went out with a large 8 x 10-inch view camera and photographed these buildings from a number of different angles, but always with a straightforward "objective" point of view'.
(wiki)
- published: 08 Apr 2021
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The Bechers in Ohio, 1987 | From the Vaults
This short, silent film documents a typical day or two in the life of the Bechers while on a road trip through the American heartland. Filmed in 1987 by their s...
This short, silent film documents a typical day or two in the life of the Bechers while on a road trip through the American heartland. Filmed in 1987 by their son, Max, and edited by him in 2022 for the exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher, the footage offers an enchanting glimpse of the artists’ working lives. It records them driving their ubiquitous VW bus, moving heavy equipment in and out of a motel room, eating a quick lunch, taking a nap, positioning the camera to photograph a grain elevator, and even manipulating certain aspects of the physical environment to suit their needs.
Learn more about the exhibition here: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/becher
Collection of Max Becher
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This short, silent film documents a typical day or two in the life of the Bechers while on a road trip through the American heartland. Filmed in 1987 by their son, Max, and edited by him in 2022 for the exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher, the footage offers an enchanting glimpse of the artists’ working lives. It records them driving their ubiquitous VW bus, moving heavy equipment in and out of a motel room, eating a quick lunch, taking a nap, positioning the camera to photograph a grain elevator, and even manipulating certain aspects of the physical environment to suit their needs.
Learn more about the exhibition here: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/becher
Collection of Max Becher
© Max Becher
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- published: 01 Nov 2022
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Bernd & Hilla Becher Basic Forms (Silos Cooling Towers Blast Furnaces) HD 1080p
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"In the history of photography, their work is mentioned in the same breath as Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, Karl Blossfeldt and August Sander, with whom the Bechers share a passion for the documentary and narrative qualities of the medium. Culturally, their brilliant black and white photographs of industrial buildings are rooted in the history of architecture and engineering, where their work provided an early research tool and resource for industrial archaeologists seeking to broaden the scope of architectural conservation.
With their photographs of water towers and winding towers, blast furnaces, silos and gas tanks, over sixty of which are reproduced in this book, Bernd and Hilla Becher set new standards in perceptual aesthetics, presenting heavy industry as an object of art. perplexingly complex surroundings, they appear as monumental symbols of their own history - with all the stylistic diversity of the great masterpieces of architecture."
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"In the history of photography, their work is mentioned in the same breath as Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, Karl Blossfeldt and August Sander, with whom the Bechers share a passion for the documentary and narrative qualities of the medium. Culturally, their brilliant black and white photographs of industrial buildings are rooted in the history of architecture and engineering, where their work provided an early research tool and resource for industrial archaeologists seeking to broaden the scope of architectural conservation.
With their photographs of water towers and winding towers, blast furnaces, silos and gas tanks, over sixty of which are reproduced in this book, Bernd and Hilla Becher set new standards in perceptual aesthetics, presenting heavy industry as an object of art. perplexingly complex surroundings, they appear as monumental symbols of their own history - with all the stylistic diversity of the great masterpieces of architecture."
- published: 28 Aug 2021
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Bernd and Hilla Becher, Hauser & Wirth Zürich
Olivier Renaud-Clément talks about the exhibition 'Bernd and Hilla Becher' at Hauser & Wirth Zürich, 14 October – 22 December 2017
Olivier Renaud-Clément talks about the exhibition 'Bernd and Hilla Becher' at Hauser & Wirth Zürich, 14 October – 22 December 2017
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Olivier Renaud-Clément talks about the exhibition 'Bernd and Hilla Becher' at Hauser & Wirth Zürich, 14 October – 22 December 2017
- published: 05 Dec 2017
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Bernd and Hilla and the Photographic Afterlife of Heavy Industry | MetSpeaks
Artists Bernd and Hilla Becher focused on a single subject: the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America that fueled the modern ...
Artists Bernd and Hilla Becher focused on a single subject: the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America that fueled the modern era. Their photographic typologies of industrial architecture can be seen as, among many other things, a memorial to places of modern industry and the monoliths it imposed on the landscape. Join scholars and writers for a discussion about interpreting these photographs in the present day and how they might be perceived in the future.
Lucy Sante, writer, cultural critic, and scholar
Owen Hatherley, Culture Editor, Tribune
Jeff L. Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, The Met
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher
The exhibition is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel, the Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation, the Edward John & Patricia Rosenwald Foundation, and Linda Macklowe
It is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Studio Bernd & Hilla Becher and Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur
Recorded on Thursday, July 14, 2022, 6-7 pm
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Artists Bernd and Hilla Becher focused on a single subject: the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America that fueled the modern era. Their photographic typologies of industrial architecture can be seen as, among many other things, a memorial to places of modern industry and the monoliths it imposed on the landscape. Join scholars and writers for a discussion about interpreting these photographs in the present day and how they might be perceived in the future.
Lucy Sante, writer, cultural critic, and scholar
Owen Hatherley, Culture Editor, Tribune
Jeff L. Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, The Met
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher
The exhibition is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel, the Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation, the Edward John & Patricia Rosenwald Foundation, and Linda Macklowe
It is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Studio Bernd & Hilla Becher and Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur
Recorded on Thursday, July 14, 2022, 6-7 pm
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- published: 20 Oct 2022
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Düsseldorfer Fotoschule - Die neue deutsche Objektivität
Bernd und Hilla Becher, Begründer der Düsseldorfer Fotoschule, sorgten mit ihren schnörkellosen und nach Objektivität strebenden Bildern für grundlegende Umwälz...
Bernd und Hilla Becher, Begründer der Düsseldorfer Fotoschule, sorgten mit ihren schnörkellosen und nach Objektivität strebenden Bildern für grundlegende Umwälzungen in der fotografischen Praxis. Absolventen wie Thomas Ruff und Andreas Gursky, die durch diesen Stil entscheidend geprägt wurden, zählen zu den einflussreichsten Fotografen des 20. Jahrhunderts (Stan Naumann, Dokumentation Frankreich 2011).
Teil der Playlist "Düsseldorfer Fotoschule: Becher, Gursky, Ruff, Struth, ..." hier: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?action_edit=1&list=PLMl2o_aF06BuZvklo3s6JvH1tf1PIW71t
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Bernd und Hilla Becher, Begründer der Düsseldorfer Fotoschule, sorgten mit ihren schnörkellosen und nach Objektivität strebenden Bildern für grundlegende Umwälzungen in der fotografischen Praxis. Absolventen wie Thomas Ruff und Andreas Gursky, die durch diesen Stil entscheidend geprägt wurden, zählen zu den einflussreichsten Fotografen des 20. Jahrhunderts (Stan Naumann, Dokumentation Frankreich 2011).
Teil der Playlist "Düsseldorfer Fotoschule: Becher, Gursky, Ruff, Struth, ..." hier: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?action_edit=1&list=PLMl2o_aF06BuZvklo3s6JvH1tf1PIW71t
- published: 30 Jan 2014
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