Industrial topic

Photo works by Bernd & Hilla BECHER, Joachim BROHM, Jitka HANZLOVÁ and Rudolf HOLTAPPEL 4 slipcased pb, approx. 28 x 28 x 3 cm., 240 pp., Black & white and color photographs, GERMAN text only

In the book 'Verlassene Ort' (Abandoned Places) various photographers document the beautiful and at the same time eerie atmosphere of places where decay has set in and nature has returned. The history & present of these places are explained in short texts

This First edition of photo volume 'Fabrikhallen' by Bernd & Hilla BECHER contains b/w photographs from the 1960s to 1990s. All factory halls were recorded in Germany, each recording is provided with the location and the date of the recording time.

'Industrielandschaften' by Bernd & Hilla BECHER is a novelty: For the first time, your view of the whole opens up, including the settlement and residential buildings of the workers. The systems are presented in context and thus receive a narrative element

The 1991 photo book 'Pennsylvania Coal Mine Tipples' by Bernd & Hilla BECHER contains B / W photos of small-scale mines in Pennsylvania, USA, from the 1970s. Each recording is provided with the location and the date of the recording.

In 'Steinwerke und Kalköfen', German photographers Bernd & Hilla BECHER document buildings in the stone processing industry in Europe. For 30 years they photographed the different variants of a building type from the early days of industrialization.

Photo book 'Typologien industrieller Bauten'' by Bernd & Hilla BECHER was published in 2003 as a paperback edition. It is the bestseller among the BECHER titles. He contains individual images arranged in tableaus, supplemented by a text by Armin Zweite.

Since 1957, Bernd & Hilla BECHER have compiled a wealth of examples of the industrial building type for 'Wassertürme' (Water Towers) photo book. Although they are functional buildings, the photographed specimens reveal an unprecedented variety of shapes.

This out-of-print photo volume 'Zeche Concordia' by Bernd & Hilla BECHER, which was published in 2006 as brochure, documents the coal mine in Oberhausen in black and white photos taken between 1967 and 1970.