'Fotografien werden Bilder. Die Becher-Klasse'

Background information

'Fotografien werden Bilder. Die Becher-Klasse' by Martin Engler (ed.) contains 'main works by BECHER students from the 1980s and 1990s. Andreas GURSKY, Candida HÖFER, Alex HÜTTE, Thomas RUFF, Jörg SASSE, Thomas STRUTH - these are the names for one of the most radical changes in contemporary art. Together with Volker DÖHNE, Tata RONKHOLZ and Petra WUNDERLICH, this generation of artists formed the first of many subsequent 'cup classes' at the Düsseldorf Academy.

Content

Over 150 major works in 'Fotografien werden Bilder. Die Becher-Klasse' show how they have reformulated the perception of artistic photography. (...) Despite all the differences, the photographers from The Becher School always have an ambivalent relationship to painting, between appropriation and delimitation - their works are an expression a confident rediscovery and rediscovery of photography as an artistic medium. In pictures, formally and in terms of content, they question the natural and living space of humans, their immediate surroundings, geopolitical or global dimensions as well as social and aesthetic organizational principles. The formative years of these nine artists, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s,  and their fundamental importance for the concept of the image of our time are presented." (publisher's text, © Hirmer Verlag, 2017)
Contributions by A. Alberro, J. Baumann, Ph. Demandt, M. Engler, St. Siegel

About participating photographers

• Volker DÖHNE
  Andreas GURSKY
  Candida HÖFER
  Alex HÜTTE
  Tata RONKHOLZ
  Thomas RUFF
  Jörg SASSE
  Thomas STRUTH
  Petra WUNDERLICH

Photo books by participating photographers

• Volker DÖHNE
  Andreas GURSKY
  Candida HÖFER
  Alex HÜTTE
  Tata RONKHOLZ
  Thomas RUFF
  Jörg SASSE
  Thomas STRUTH
  Petra WUNDERLICH