Water Tower, Verviers, Belgium
Both as artists and teachers, Bernhard and Hilla Becher are among the most important figures in postwar German photography. For the last thirty years, the artists have examined the dilapidated industrial architecture of Europe and North America, from water towers and blast furnaces to the surrounding workers' houses. Photographing against a blank sky and without any pictorial tricks or effects, the artists treat these forgotten structures as the exotic specimens of a long-dead species.
Artwork Details
- Title: Water Tower, Verviers, Belgium
- Artist: Bernd and Hilla Becher (German, active 1959–2007)
- Artist: Bernd Becher (German, 1931–2007)
- Artist: Hilla Becher (German, 1934–2015)
- Date: 1983
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Image: 23 7/8 × 19 13/16 in. (60.6 × 50.4 cm)
Frame: 35 1/2 × 28 3/8 in. (90.2 × 72.1 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1992
- Object Number: 1992.5009
- Rights and Reproduction: © Bernd and Hilla Becher
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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