BERND BECHER: “A Modern Man: Blake Stimson and Thomas Struth on Bernd Becher” (2007)

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A Modern Man: Blake Stimson and Thomas Struth on Bernd Becher By: Blake Stimson & Thomas Struth, Artforum International, October 1, 2007 It is tempting to say that with the sad news of Bernd Becher’s death in June (2007) at age seventy-five we have seen the passing of an era. Curator Emma Dexter, writing in The Independent, memorialized the artist’s contribution by describing the photographic project Bernd and his wife and par…

BERND BECHER: “A Modern Man: Blake Stimson and Thomas Struth on Bernd Becher” (2007)

INTERVIEW: “Interview with Bernd and Hilla Becher” (2002)

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The Bechers’ Industrial Lexicon: In their first full-length interview ever, Bernd and Hilla Becher talk about the collaborative project that has occupied them for more than four decades: photographing and classifying the industrial structures that are even now vanishing from the modern landscape. By Ulf Erdmann Ziegler, Art in America, June, 2002 Bernd and Hilla Becher have been making photographs together for over 40 years. Their blac…

INTERVIEW: “Interview with Bernd and Hilla Becher” (2002)

DER ROTE BULLI (THE RED VW BUS): “On the Reception of Stephen Shore’s Work in Germany 1972-1995″ (2010)

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…e weekend, Münster was the epicenter of the latest developments in photographic history. While an exhibition of the work of American photographer Stephen Shore opened at the Westfälischer Kunstverein, the overwhelming show of Bernd and Hilla Becher’s Typologien (Typologies) was winding down in the rooms of the Landesmuseum opposite.” In a review that appeared in the Tageszeitung newspaper on February 3, 1995, critic Ulf Erdmann Ziegler indicated…

DER ROTE BULLI (THE RED VW BUS): “On the Reception of Stephen Shore’s Work in Germany 1972-1995″ (2010)

STEPHEN SHORE: “NRW-Forum Düsseldorf – Der Rote Bulli (The Red Bus)” (2010)

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…in this sprawling American metropolis that the 26-year-old Stephen Shore met the Düsseldorf photographer Hilla Becher, whose typological photographic documentation of water-towers, which she had put together with her husband, Bernd Becher, had gone on display at Ileana Sonnabend’s renowned gallery the previous year. Two years later, Stephen Shore and the Bechers became the only colour photographer and Europeans respectively to be part of the lege…

STEPHEN SHORE: “NRW-Forum Düsseldorf – Der Rote Bulli (The Red Bus)” (2010)

 
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