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Becher, Bernd & Hilla.
Basic Forms of Industrial Buildings.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London;
Date of Publication: 2005
Stock Code: 15551
First British edition. Large octavo, pp., 141. With 61 illustrations in duotone. Publisher’s midnight blue cloth with dove grey titles to spine and publisher’s logo blind embossed to upper board. In an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Two closed tears to the dust jacket folds. A near fine book in a very good jacket. Bernd and Hilla Becher’s style is immediately recognisable to any student of architectural photography. Over 40 years they have built up a portfolio of photographs of cooling towers, water towers, furnaces, kilns, gas holders, and agricultural and mining buildings. This collection of 61 images provides a representative selection of their work and subjects, and was published to commemorate the German couple being awarded the Hasselblad Foundation Award in 2004. £50.00