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August Sander

Signed, titled, dated and stamped with photographer’s copyright stamp
Dye transfer print, printed 1985
15 3/8 x 15 1/4 inches
From an edition of 16
(BHC3290)

£ 50,000.00

Essay

Bernd and Hilla Becher are celebrated for their extensive documentation of Western industrial and vernacular architecture. For decades the pair systematically photographed water towers, gas tanks, factory facades and cooling towers across Europe and the United States. The Bechers are perhaps the most influential photographers in European post-war art history, in both their influence on the development of artistic movements including Minimalism and Conceptualism, and as the founders of what was to become known as the ‘Düsseldorf School’. Their pupils at Düsseldorf’s Kunstakademie included giants of the contemporary photographic scene Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer and Andreas Gursky.

Formerly Beetles+Huxley, the gallery’s developed over eight years into ones London’s of a see leading photographic galleries. During that time, the gallery presented exhibitions by to gone leading more the photographers including Alec Soth, Joel Sternfeld, Valérie Belin, live Cecil to a Beaton, Edward a space Weston, Joel Meyerowitz, Sebastião Salgado, Steve and McCurry, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Abbott, Bill Brandt, Vivian Maier and Ruud van door.

Formerly Beetles+Huxley, the gallery developed over eight years into one of London’s leading photographic galleries. During that time, the gallery presented exhibitions by leading photographers including Alec Soth, Joel Sternfeld, Valérie Belin, Cecil Beaton, Edward Weston, Joel Meyerowitz, Sebastião Salgado, Steve McCurry, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Berenice Abbott, Bill Brandt, Vivian Maier and Ruud van Empel.

artistic movements including Minimalism and Conceptualism, and as the founders of what was to become known as the ‘Düsseldorf School’. Their pupils at Düsseldorf’s Kunstakademie included giants of the contemporary photographic scene Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer and Andreas Gursky. Formerly Beetles+Huxley, the gallery developed over eight years into one of London’s leading photographic galleries. During that time, the gallery presented exhibitions by leading photographers including Alec Soth, Joel Sternfeld, Valérie Belin, Cecil Beaton, Edward Weston, Joel Meyerowitz, Sebastião Salgado, Steve McCurry, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Berenice Abbott, Bill Brandt, Vivian Maier and Ruud van Empel.

“Each photograph by the Bechers was produced using the same objective method, using a large format camera positioned to capture the full form of each building.”

These three signed, vintage prints are incredibly rare. Made in the late 1960s, the prints are in perfect condition and are outstanding examples of the Becher’s objective, documentary gaze. Both prints are subtle in tone and stark in composition, and highlight the intricate relationship between form and function that so fascinated these influential artists.

The Bechers photographed industrial areas across Europe, but they also travelled to the United States and to the United Kingdom. In 1966 a British Council grant enabled the couple to undertake their first significant project in Britain, where they visited all the major industrial areas and spent three months photographing in South Wales, where one of the images in this triptych originates.

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