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The Great Photographic Chroniclers of the Rust Belt,
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This review is from: Basic Forms of Industrial Buildings (Hardcover)
Bernd and Hilla Becher have spent the past 45 years travelling the rust belts of Northern Europe and the United States taking photographs of decaying industrial buildings. "Basic Forms of Industrial Buildings" brings together 61 black and white photographs that chronicle the different forms of such common place buildings as water towers, coal bins, gravel plants and blast furnaces. Their approach is to find an interesting building and photograph it straight on without distractions such as people or even clouds. While these images are essentially cold and hyper-analytic they nevertheless open the viewers eyes to the sculptural possibilities of even the ugliest industrial buildings. I found the Becher's photographs to be wonderful contrasts to that other great chronicler of urban American decay, Jose Camilo Vergara. An interesting and thought provoking book.
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Basic Forms of Industrial Buildings by Bernd Becher (Hardcover - April 25, 2005)
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