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[Study of Technical Details]

Hilla Becher German

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In 2013 Hilla Becher informed Thomas Weaver, the British architectural historian, that after her apprenticeship with the photographer Walter Eichgrün she was “crazy about metal. . . . I was absolutely obsessed with it. . . . My experience was that metal and black-and-white photography came together very nicely. Strangely, the same thing doesn’t happen with brick. I was always really mad at brick buildings because they look so stupid somehow. Whereas if you look up at a metal blast furnace, for example, you see something that has this half-matte, half-glossy surface. It’s here that you discover, if not beauty, then at least something similar.”

[Study of Technical Details], Hilla Becher (German, 1934–2015), Gelatin silver print

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