Düsseldorf

The focus of the catalog illuminating the early phase of the BECHER school is on the mutual influences between the image concepts emerging in Düsseldorf and the innovations of the 'New-Color Photography' and the 'New Topographics' movement in the U.S..

The catalog accompanies the exhibition SUBJECT AND OBJECT. PHOTO RHINE RUHR and contains many illustrations, current texts and photo-historically significant articles. It examines relationships between different photographic positions that have developed.

The out-of-print photo volume 'The Mill' (Die Mühle) by Matthias SCHALLER is a document of the living and working spaces of Bernd and Hilla BECHER, a former paper mill in the Düsseldorf district of Kaiserwerth, in which the couple lived from 1961 to 2003.

The photo volume 'Deutschland. Die frühen Jahre. 1951 - 1969' by Walter VOGEL contains black-and-white photographs taken in the post-war period in his native Düsseldorf and the Ruhr area. This was also the time of his training with Otto STEINERT in Essen.