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TYPOLOGIES ANCIENNES collection memento. 4 Bernd & Hilla becher | MAC's | 9782873172947

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collection memento. 4 Bernd & Hilla becher

typologies anciennes

Publisher:MAC'S

ISBN: 9782873172947

  • Paperback
  • Dutch, English, French
  • 118 Pages
  • Jul 10, 2006

The Becerks' pictures can be compared to identification sheets in a catalogue of disused industrial buildings, presenting in the form of illustration plates a series of cooling towers, water towers, gasholders, blast furnaces, etc. This invnorty of industrial heritage is also a compilation of 'typologies' in the tradition of the German objective photography. Although its illustrations span a number of years, from the end of the 1960s to the end of the 1970s, Ancient Typologies revisits a moment in the ouvre. The pohotgraphic pal

The Becerks' pictures can be compared to identification sheets in a catalogue of disused industrial buildings, presenting in the form of illustration plates a series of cooling towers, water towers, gasholders, blast furnaces, etc. This invnorty of industrial heritage is also a compilation of 'typologies' in the tradition of the German objective photography. Although its illustrations span a number of years, from the end of the 1960s to the end of the 1970s, Ancient Typologies revisits a moment in the ouvre. The photographic plates presented in this book were first exhibited at the 14th Sao Paulo Internation Biennial in 1977. 

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