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'buildings where anonymity is accepted to be the style'
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Since 1959 married couple, Bernd and Hilla Becher have photographed the industrial architecture of Western Europe. Arranged in grids or as a sequence of monographs 'to make families of objects' or 'to create families of motifs' they invited examination of the similarities and differences in structure and appearance.
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Everybody who collects something groups, whether you collect beer mugs or butterflies. ... Or stamps, for instance: you collect them for countries, colors, images, time. [Likewise] you can also group these very difficult to understand industrial buildings. -- Hilla Becher
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Artist Idris Khan (in)famously produced his own homage to the Becher's, appropriating their images in all-encompassing composites consolidating them into single ‘super-images’:
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“every… Bernd and Hilla Becher Spherical type Gasholders: 2004″
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The Photographic Comportment of Bernd and Hilla Becher - Tate Papers
Bernd and Hilla Becher (Getty Museum)
Bernd and Hilla Becher on Wikipedia
On Amazon: Bernd and Hilla Becher: Life and Work
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