Cooling Towers

by Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher

Another volume in the Bechers' lifelong project of documenting the architecture of industrial structures.

Bernd and Hilla Becher's photography can be considered conceptual art, typological study, and topological documentation. Their work can be linked to the Neue Sachlichkeit movement of the 1920s and to such masters of German photography as Karl Blossfeldt, August Sander, and Albert Renger-Patzsch. Their photographs documenting the architecture...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262025981
• ISBN13: 9780262025980
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 4.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 10.8" x 11.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher