Düsseldorf Catalogue | July 2013

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The Bechers’ aesthetic was greatly influenced by the 1920s German tradition of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity).

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“The German photographic movement commonly known as the Düsseldorf School of Photography has become synonymous with artistic excellence and innovation. It began in the mid-1970s at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, under the instruction of the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, known for their comparative grids of mundane industrial buildings captured with an objective and clinical eye. This school has not only birthed some of today’s most important and successful photographers, but has also had a fundamental and lasting influence on the history of the medium.”

- Stefan Gronert, The Dusseldorf School of Photography “The Bechers established a new direction for the school at a critical time when photography was still struggling to obtain genuine credibility and acceptance in the art world. Major exhibitions had taken place, primarily in New York, where photography enjoyed a more forward thinking approach than the traditional tastes of European galleries, but there was still a general feeling that photography was on the perimeter and stagnant, retracing old pictorial ground.... The Bechers helped to drive a significant shift in this attitude... Students who include the most important practitioners of our era, including Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth, were primarily taught to continually question their use of photography as their medium. To the Bechers it was no longer enough to capture a beautiful image in the European pictorial tradition. This marked the beginning of what we now consider to be ‘conceptual’ photography.”

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Anonyme Skulpturen - Bernd & Hilla Becher

Art-Press Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1970. First German Edition. Quarto 11 x 9”. Hardbound in blue cloth stamped in white on cover and spine, with illustrated dust jacket.

“The extensive series that the Bechers later made for Schirmer/Mosel and MIT Press, while preserving the aesthetic rigor of their earlier work, emphasizes the documentary aspect, and has a particular archival, historical value. Anonyme Skulpturen, though it hardly neglects the informational importance of their practice, seems much more about making an aesthetic statement and establishing the artists’ position in late twentieth-century art. All their books are polemical, but this represents their primary artistic credo. For those who are more interested in the Bechers as artists than as industrial archaeologists, this is the one to have on one’s shelf.” Parr & Badger (vol.

2, pg. 266).

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Anonyme Skulpturen Poster - Bernd & Hilla Becher

Kunst-Zeitung No. 2. Michel Press, Dusseldorf, 1969. Folio 12 x 17”. Softcover. Original, illustrated art booklet, stapled, with 6 sheets, 19 half-page and 5 full-page black and white illustrations.

Text in German and French by Pierre Restany and by Bernd and Hilla Becher, translated into English by Richard Bairstow. Very rare. Presented in custom, plexi standing blade frame.

One of the first publications on the two German artists and their photographs of cooling towers in the Ruhr area, South Wales, France and Belgium in 1965-1968.

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Bergwerke Und Hütten - Bernd & Hilla Becher

Schirmer/Mosel, Germany, 2010. Quarto 11 x 11 ½”. Hardbound in blue cloth with illustrated dust jacket. Text in German. Introduction

by Heinz Liesbrock, art historian and director of the Josef Albers Museum.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Josef Albers Museum in Bottrop. Includes 140 duotone plates of mines and cabins from all over the world.

Pennsylvania Coal Mine Tipples - Bernd & Hilla Becher

Dia Center for the Arts, New York, 1991. Quarto 11 x 12”. Hardbound in blue cloth with illustrated dust jacket. First edition in a limited 2000 copies.

“Typological, repetitive, at times oddly humorous, Bernd and Hilla Becher’s photographs of industrial structures are, in their cumulative effect, profoundly moving. The Bechers’ serenely cool, disarmingly objective, and notoriously obsessive images of water towers, gas tanks, grain elevators, blast furnaces, and mineheads have been taken over a period of almost [forty] years, under overcast skies, with a view camera that captures each detail and tonality of wood, concrete, brick and steel.” –From the publisher

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Bernd & Hilla Becher - An Arts Council Exhibition

The Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1974. Small Quarto 8 x 9 ½”. Stapled photographic wrappers. First edition exhibition catalogue. Includes 18 B&W plates and an interview by Lynda Morris.

“They are the tools of industrialization, monuments to industry and the aggressive reality of our culture. They served society but men served them. It is these social implications which emerge from the work. Man makes art, not because he wants to, but to survive and improve his world.”

–Lynda Morris, on the Bechers’ subjects and work, from the introduction

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Fachwerkhäuser Des Siegener Industriegebietes - Bernd & Hilla Becher

Schirmer/Mosel, Munich, 1977. Quarto 9 x 10”. Hardback in white paper with title stamped on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. First edition. Title translation: “Half-timbered Houses of the Siegen Industrial Region.”

“In the Siegen area east of Cologne, one of the world’s oldest iron-producing regions, the use of wood for building purposes was regulated since wood, in the form of charcoal, was the energy base for ironsmelting. This self-imposed restriction produced an ideal framework structure eliminating all purely ornamental construction elements. Documented by Bernd and Hilla Becher in their first complete photographic series.” –From the publisher

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Zeche Hannover / Hannover Coal Mine - Bernd & Hilla Becher Schirmer/Mosel, Munich, 2010. Quarto 11 x 12”. Hardbound in blue cloth with illustrated dust jacket. Text in German and English.

Bernd and Hilla Becher’s photographic documentation of the abandoned and demolished Hannover Coal Mine resurrects the colliery before the viewer’s eyes: the three winding towers spanning a period of about 100 years; the power station with its cooling towers; the adjacent coking plant; and the spectacular conveyor belts traversing the entire compound. 200 black-and-white photographs selected from a total of 600 negatives taken between 1971 and 1974 present panoramic views of the plant and its individual structures from several perspectives. The photographic narrative of entire plants has previously been given little notice in the reception of the Bechers’ work. Reminiscent of the documentation of Zeche Hannibal published in 2000, the present volume is another important contribution to the interpretation of their oeuvre.

Fördertürme Chevalements Mineheads - Bernd & Hilla Becher Schirmer/Mosel, Germany, 1985. Quarto 9 x 11 ½”. Hardbound in gray cloth with illustrated dust jacket. First edition. Text in German, French and English.

This book was published in conjunction with the exhibitions at “Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany,” at “ARC, Musee d`Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France,” and at “Musee d`Art Moderne de la Ville de Liege, Belgium.” Includes an index to the photographs, and exhibition history.

“This exhibition…focuses exclusively on one single subject- the mineheads. Other subject series such as the furnaces, water and cooling towers, gasometers etc., have been left aside deliberately. The subject of the exhibition has occupied the Bechers for two decades, and the search for the right subject matter has led them to a number of industrial regions in Western Europe and North America. The exhibition and this book constitute the first comprehensive cross-section of the collected material on pit-heads: a visual anthology of the era and, to an equal extent, its metaphysical mirror-image.” – From the foreword

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Häuser und Hallen - Bernd & Hilla Becher

Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, 1992. Octavo 7 ½ x 9 ½”. Paperback. Exhibition catalogue. Title translation: “Houses and Halls.”

This book presents images of halls and houses, photographed by Bernd and Hilla Becher. Rendered timeless by the camera and isolated from their original, often perplexingly complex surroundings, the houses appear as monumental symbols of their own history - with all the stylistic diversity of the great masterpieces of architecture.

Industrial Façades - Bernd & Hilla Becher

MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995. Quarto 11 x 12”. Hardbound in blue cloth with illustrated dust jacket.

Industrial Façades covers the whole range of periods and designs representing this building type: from austere brick buildings of the early industrial age and the arched windows and turrets decorating historicist facades, to the concrete and glass functionalist constructions of the 50s and 1960s, to today’s rectangular, windowless halls. The Bechers’ photographs do not really illustrate the development of modern industrial architecture, nor the achievements of functionalist building, but rather the achievements of banal, everyday architecture, produced by builders trained in crafts or by engineers trained in the necessities of the industrial process. Contains more than two hundred striking duotone plates.

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Industrial Landscapes - Bernd & Hilla Becher

MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002. Quarto 12 x 10”.

Hardbound in blue cloth with illustrated dust jacket. First edition.

This book offers a stunning retrospective of the Bechers’ most compelling work, featuring coal mines, iron ore mines, steel mills, power stations with cooling towers, lime kilns, and grain elevators, among other subjects. These photographs were taken in industrial regions in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States (Alabama, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania).

Bernd and Hilla Becher - La Jolla Museum

La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, 1974.

Small Quarto 8 x 10”. First edition. Softcover, staple-bound catalog.

Very good condition except for a few light rubbing marks to front and back cover.

Designed by Frye & Smith, Ltd. and published in conjunction with the 1974 La Jolla exhibition which ran from February 23 – March 31, 1974, this catalogue represents the first American Museum retrospective of the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher.

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Mineheads - Bernd & Hilla Becher The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997. Quarto 11 x 12”.

Hardbound in blue cloth with illustrated dust jacket.

The Bechers spent two decades searching industrial regions of Western Europe and North America for mineheads. These delicate giants stand over the shaft entrances of mines, housing the cages attached to cables that move up and down the mine shaft, bringing minerals to the surface and transferring miners back and forth from underground.

“Here is a ravishing work of obsession.... One leafs through the pages of the book and can almost hear the echo of the numberless men who toiled deep underground.... Today, the mineheads stand, like so many enigmatic Easter Island monuments, as a kind of elegy to the now broken beauty of the world of our forefathers, whose labor and ingenuity are eloquently present in every photograph of this remarkable and moving book.” -- The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Steve Wasserman

Typologies - Bernd & Hilla Becher

Schirmer/Mosel, Munich, Germany, 1990. Quarto 12 x 12”. Paperback with illustrated cover. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the XLIV Esposizione Internationale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, April 27 - September 30, 1990. Text in German, Italian and English.

“In typological series, constructions or devices with the same functions and comparable structures are analyzed, always under the same shooting circumstances: the motif is placed in the middle of the picture, mostly frontally, seldom diagonally, it is photographed without perspective distortion, never from above or below, under a sky as cloudless as possible, without shadow in a diffuse light, in absolute abstention from an expressive superelevation.” – From the introduction

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Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven - Bernd & Hilla Becher

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 1981. Quarto 12 x 9 ½”. Softcover, pictoral front wrappers. First edition.

This is the exhibition catalog from the retrospective held at the Van Abbemuseum, which shows the Becher’s main subjects of houses, blast furnaces, cooling, gas, and water towers, as well as unusual groupings of objects of different functions, maintenance buildings, distribution plants, and a high tension pylon. Includes 1 page listing collections where the photographs are from, 1 page list of exhibitions, and 1 page bibliography. Front and back covers yellowed, otherwise a fine copy.

Includes 6 extra loose pages with information about the artists; text in Dutch.

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Vergleiche technischer Konstruktionen - Bernd & Hilla Becher

Gegenverkehr E. V. Zentrum Fur Aktuelle Kunst, Aachen, 1971.

Octavo 8 ½ x 8”. Stapled photographic wrappers. First edition exhibition catalogue. Text in German.

A very early, scarce exhibition catalogue of the Bechers’ work including 72 black and white photographs.

Zeche Hannibal - Bernd & Hilla Becher

Schirmer/Mosel Verlag, Munich, 2000. Quarto 11 x 12”. Hardbound in blue cloth with illustrated dust jacket. First edition.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Huis Marseille, Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam 13 May - 9 July 2000. Text in German and English.

“The Hannibal coal mine in Bochum-Hofstede was shut down on March 31, 1973. A few days later, Bernd and Hilla Becher started their extensive documentation of the colliery demolished in 1974. 85 images divided into 19 subject groups scan not only the mine as a whole from different angles but each architectural part of the complex industrial plant - from the winding tower to the wash house, from the preparation plant to the workshop and sawdust silos.” – From the publisher

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Water Towers - Bernd & Hilla Becher

MIT Press, Cambridge, 1989. First Edition, Second Printing. Quarto 11.75 x 9.25”. Hardbound with illustrated dust jacket.

“The Bechers’ 223 photographs of water towers comprise a unique, single minded, even obsessive mission: they were taken from as many as 8 angles, over a period of 25 years, with a stylistic approach that remains so consistent that photographs juxtaposed from the 1950s and 1980s suggest a-minute to-minute account: deadpan portraits of unadorned metal, concrete, and wooden structures that express an almost Egyptian sense of man’s heroic effort to put his mark on the landscape. This book represents the first of Bernd & Hilla Becher’s work to be printed in the United States.” –From the introduction

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Coal Mine (Details), 1988 - Bernd & Hilla Becher

Bernd & Hilla Becher Coal Mine (Details), 1988 Three black & white photographs 20 1/4” x 50 3/4” BHB 116

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“All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.”

- Bernd Becher

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Andreas Gursky - The Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001. First Edition. Folio 14 x 12”. Gray cloth-covered boards with title blind-stamped on cover and stamped in black on spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket.

“The big, bold, seductive, and surprising color photographs of German photographer Andreas Gursky (b. 1955) set forth a stunning image of our contemporary world of high-tech industry, international markets, big-time sports, fast-paced tourism, and slick commerce. This large-format volume -- published in conjunction with the major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art --presents an in-depth study in English of Gursky’s work.” – From the publisher

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Bilder - Andreas Gursky

Oktagon, Germany, 1995. Oblong Quarto. Hardcover. Title stamped in orange on illustrated cover and on spine. Text in German. Small tear at bottom corner of spine; an otherwise fine copy.

A handsome selection of Gursky’s photographs, ranging from 1984 – 1995. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool, July – August 1995.

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“I am never interested in the individual...”

“...but in the human species and its environment.”

-Andreas Gursky

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Photographs 1984 - 1993 - Andreas Gursky

Schirmer Art Books, London, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong quarto. Softcover with stiff, pictorial wrappers. Published on the occasion of the 1994 retrospective exhibition Andreas Gursky - Photographs at the Diechtorhallen Hamburg, 4 February – 10 April 1994.

From the publisher: “Gursky captures in his large-format color photographs vast panoramic views: ‘complete’ townscapes, ‘endless’ horizons, huge factory buildings, packed rooms -- with people the size of ants. This publication accompanies the first large retrospective of Gursky’s photographic masterpieces from the past 15 years.”

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Orte Jahre: Photographien 1968 - 1999 - Candida Höfer

Schirmer/Mosel, Cologne, 1999. Quarto 8 ½ x 11 ½”. Paperback. Text in German.

After training at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf, Candida Höfer studied photography with Bernd and Hilla Becher from 1976 to 1982. The influence of the precise, scientifically minded Bechers (under whom Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth and Thomas Ruff also studied), is very apparent in Höfer’s work. Her images are predominantly of public spaces - libraries, auditoriums, lobbies, museums, club houses. People are noticeably absent from her highly formal images.

Instead, Höfer emphasizes repeated forms within the rooms such as chairs, tables, bookshelves and light fixtures to create patterns and produce a sense of orderliness. However, despite their conspicuous absence, it is people in whom Höfer is most interested; our culture and lifestyle are reflected in the architecture and interiors we create.

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“Spaces may or may not invite the image—if they do, they mostly do it with their spatial layers of time… It is then the image that takes the place of the space; the image in its own right.”

-Candida Höfer

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Leseräume - Candida Höfer

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Schwabe, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 1999. First Edition paperback. Octavo 7 x 9”. Text in German and English.

In this exhibition catalogue from Kunsthalle Basel, Hofer trains her practiced eye on great library interiors of the world. Illustrated in color throughout. Text in German and English.

“It is astonishing how a single photograph can transport information…The pictures are above and beyond the random. From the very outset they refuse to surrender to synthetic production or manipulation; they presuppose authenticity. It is their inherent system which we believe we have to thank for a certain security. Through it we gain certainty in the face of multiplicity, the wealth of detail, and the structure of the individual elements. Certainty, although the world is not as it is depicted; it is constructed. This tension points to a paradoxical relationship between idealism and realism, and bestows on these photographs that very significance which goes far beyond any mere illustration of typologies.” –From the introduction

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Museum Photographs - Thomas Struth

Schirmer/Mosel, Munich, 1998. First Edition. Oblong Quarto. Hardcover. Fine blue cloth-covered boards with title stamped in beige on cover and spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket.

Text (in English) by Hans Belting.

From the publisher: “Thomas Struth studied painting under Gerhard Richter and photography under Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. Museum Photographs by Thomas Struth, who was born in 1954, comprises seventeen large color photos taken between 1989 and 1992 in the most important museums of the world. He investigates paintings and how they are viewed in a museum -- a complex chain of events involving various perceptual, mediating, and temporal factors, all captured in one single photo.” Includes exhibition history and bibliography. 17 four-color plates and 8 additional black and white and color reference illustrations. Struth’s series of museum photographs is published in this volume for the first time in full.

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“In general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things by returning to a simple method, one that photography had from the beginning of its existence.”

- Thomas Struth

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My Portrait - Thomas Struth

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The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kyoto, 2000. First edition. Octavo. Photographically

lustrated laminated stiff wrappers. Text in Japanese and English.

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“Rather than using his photographic work to express the thoughts or emotions inside himself, Struth employs them to discover and analyze something in the external world. This attitude is a common characteristic of the so-called Becher School of photographers, who studied under the Bechers. They return to the origin of photography as a medium and encourage us to reconsider its potential.”

–From the foreword

Published on the occasion of an exhibition that ran October 3 through December 9, 2000 in Tokyo and then December 19, 2000 through February 4, 2001 in Kyoto. Text in English and Japanese with a foreword by Tetsuo Tsujimura and Takeo Uchiyma. Includes a checklist of the exhibition (in English and Japanese), exhibition history and bibliography (in English). 17 four-color and 9 black and white plates, and 2 additional black and white reference illustrations.

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Still - Thomas Struth

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Schirmer/Mosel, Munich, 1998. First Edition. Quarto. Cloth-covered boards in dark green with title stamped in light blue on cover and on spine. Photographer’s name stamped in black on bottom of cover. Illustrated dust jacket. Texts (in English and French) by Régis Durand, James Lingwood, Guy Tosatto and Hripsimé Visser. Includes a biography, exhibition history and bibliography.

Published on the occasion of the 1998 exhibition entitled Thomas Struth: Still at the Centre National de la Photographie, Paris (traveled to Carré d’Art -- Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nimes and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam). From the foreword: “Thomas Struth is considered one of the major figures of German photography. [Regarding the museum photographs] Alternatively sympathetic and ironic, Struth conducts an extremely subtle analysis of the position of the work of art in our society, of our relation to history and heritage and, lastly, of the mysterious and enduring power of art over human beings (a phenomenon which, paradoxically, photography, of all art forms, seems the best equipped to reveal). This book marks the first major European exhibition dedicated to Thomas Struth.”

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