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Freudenberg, Germany
Bernd and Hilla Becher German
Not on view
The Bechers included the photographs on this wall in their 1977 publication Framework Houses of the Siegen Industrial Region. They appear in a special section at the end of the book titled “Groups of Houses.” The early landscape-format photographs demonstrate how individual framework houses are members of a large community of buildings displaying variations of a single architectural style. The Bechers generally did not exhibit these and other similar wide-field views, which show natural topography and surrounding context, until 2003, near the end of their fifty years of working together.
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