A water tower. A grain elevator. A gas tank. Unremarkable structures to some, but to photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, they were works of art. A German couple working in the second half of the ...

Bernd and Hilla Becher, "Zeche Hannover, Bochum-Hordel, Ruhr Region, Germany" (1973), gelatin silver print, 18 × 23 inches, sheet: 20 × 24 inches (purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through ...

The photographs of Bernd and Hilla Becher are at once brazen and self-effacing. For more than 40 years, from roughly the early 1960s to the late 1990s, the German husband-and-wife team (Bernd, ...

Bernd and Hilla Becher, the de facto founders of Germany’s Düsseldorf School of photography, are giants in the history of 20th-century European photography, but they can seem like also-rans in the US ...

Bernd and Hilla Becher saw art in what most people would describe as banal or ugly. Eight years after the death of her husband in 2007, the influential German photographer Hilla Becher died in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. Why go to a museum when you could visit a coal mine? For the ...

German husband-and-wife duo Bernd and Hilla Becher photographed loneliness. Their pictures of industrial structures, from blast furnaces to grain silos, crucially absent of people, warp scale and ...

Bernd and Hilla Becher, Wassertürme (Water Towers), 2007. Digital Print, 35.43 x 44.09 in. (90 x 112 cm). Edition of 40. Signed and numbered on verso. Bernd, born 1931, and Hilla Becher, born 1934, ...

German artists Bernd (1931-2007) and Hilla Becher (1934) were a collaborative duo known for their photographs documenting industrial structures. Beginning their work together in 1959, the couple ...

Digital Print, 35.43 x 44.09 in. (90 x 112 cm). Edition of 40. Signed and numbered on verso. Bernd, born 1931, and Hilla Becher, born 1934, were an influential German photographer couple. Both Bernd ...

Bernd Becher was born August 20, 1931, in Siegen, Germany. He studied painting and lithography at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Stuttgart from 1953 to 1956 and studied typography at the Staatliche ...