Hilla and Bernd Becher were photographers who captured sets of matching black and white photos of related industrial objects.
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| Water Towers by Hilla and Bernd Becher |
They needed overcast days to do their work, because the forms were always lit by indirect light.
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| Blast Furnaces by Hilla and Bernd Becker |
They worked as a team, traveling around Europe and North America documenting the disappearing industrial architecture and arranging them in typologies reminiscent of natural history collections.
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| Water Towers by Hilla and Bernd Becher |
They were attracted by the unintentional sculptural beauty of these forms. Bringing the images together invited viewers to compare and contrast. They said: "We photographed water towers and furnaces because they are honest. They are functional, and they reflect what they do - that is what we liked."
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