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SFThe “Bernd & Hilla Becher” exhibition is a *blast*... get it?
The German artist couple used a large-format view camera to methodically record blast furnaces, winding towers, grain silos, cooling towers, and gas tanks with precision, elegance, and passion. Their rigorous, standardized practice allowed for comparative analyses of structures that they exhibited in grids of between four and thirty photographs. They described these formal arrangements as “typologies” and the buildings themselves as “anonymous sculpture.”
Explore the hundreds of photographs in their retrospective on Floor 3.
[Bernd and Hilla Becher, “Hochöfen, Vereinigte Staaten, Deutschland, Frankreich, Luxemburg, Belgien (Blast Furnaces, United States, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Belgium),” 1968-1993, The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © Estate of Bernd and Hilla Becher] #HillaBecher #BerndBecher #Photography #IndustrialPhotography #SanFranisco #SFMuseums
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