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...Anderson credits photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher — the mid-century German husband-and-wife artist duo — as a pivotal aesthetic influence....
...For a more dispassionate account of the visual oddity of regional southern France, search out Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier’s droll little show Grey Sun near the station — Bernd and Hilla Becher-like sequences...
...Geoffrey Bevington photographed his family’s factory in Bermondsey, south London, in 1861 as a pattern of strict verticals and horizontals, as geometric and forbidding as conceptualists Bernd and Hilla Becher...
...Rose Adagio in which the un-pricked Princess holds her balance (and her nerve) as she greets four suitors in turn can sometimes seem like stuntwork — the former Times critic John Percival dubbed it “the Becher...
...Although it was later commercialised as a drink by the Becher family and is now owned by Pernod Ricard, Czechs still use it to ease the stomach as well as the soul....
...The new space is at 22 East 80th Street, close to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which opens a show of Bernd & Hilla Becher, a Sprüth Magers estate, on July 15....
...Eliasson and Los Angeles-based Jim Shaw, best known for his graphic drawings; in Paris, a sculpture by pop artist Sylvie Fleury sits alongside a 1960s series of photographs by German duo Bernd and Hilla Becher...
...In another coup, Cooper now co-represents the estate of the renowned German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher. “Artists’ careers fluctuate,” she says....
...When I visited, artists were busy putting together a geodesic dome and the components were stacked up under the old coal conveyors which magically resembled something from a Bernd and Hilla Becher photo,...
...And I think that’s maybe why I have an affinity to the Bechers [the work of the German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher], because they were talked about as conceptualists but what was the concept?...
...Cooper promises a collaborative effort and describes the Becher market as “stable and expandable”. She plans a major show in 2020....
...Fortunately, the German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher discovered an affinity between his impassive seriality and their own, and passed on his insights to students such as Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer...
...The art and architecture worlds so fetishised the typographical work of Bernd and Hilla Becher and their “objective” photography of the otherwise banal elements of the post-industrial landscape that we have...
...Gursky decided to apply and, in 1981, joined the Bechers’ class....
...“OK, the Bechers were accepted in the art world,” Ruff says....
...To complete the arc of associations are images from the “Velvet Years” series by American grandee Stephen Shore, who also enjoyed a close relationship with the Bechers....
...Her work is often grouped with those of the German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher and their pupils at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf — what is now known as the “Düsseldorf School” — but it is a connection...
...It was Hilla Becher who arrived with the photographic expertise....
...He nearly tumbles neck-and-crop whenever attempting an overextended conversational conceit — like his quest for a “church” and a “hill” at Churchill House — and he ends up falling at the Becher’s Brook of...
...Its gruelling nature — with Becher’s Brook and the Chair the most famous fences — means winners have tended to be older, stronger horses, with experience of the Liverpool track a key advantage....
...The Bechers take their place in a long line of predecessors. Perhaps the Bechers’ influence lies above all in their brand. Contemporary art is sold by being branded....
...Bernd & Hilla Becher, Sprüth Magers, London It is hard to think of any postwar European photographs more influential than the Bechers’ panoramic, austerely rigorous, deliberate images of the Rhineland industrial...
...Although the strict formality of his teachers, conceptual post-industrial photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, was decisive, his first landscapes demonstrate how much his vocabulary for describing the extravagant...
...show also celebrates the symbiotic relationship between photographers and architectural subjects in works including the flat neutral depictions of decaying industrial edifices fixed by Bernd and Hilla Becher...
...Just as Karl Blossfeldt found awe in the endless variety of plants, the Bechers saw the beauty in the archaeology of production....
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