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Providing a fast and efficient method of loading and unloading grain to keep pace with the industrial production methods of the nineteenth century, they made possible a tremendous increase in the trafficking and processing of grain. Scooping, pouring, and spitting, they both illustrated and inspired Le Corbusier's idea of buildings as functioning machines. Monumental, essential, and visually arresting, grain elevators belong as much to the American imagination and landscape as to the European. The photographs of grain elevators in this volume were taken in Germany, Belgium, France, and America. But the specificity of time and place is erased in these photographs; the monolithic structures evoke the agricultural prosperity of a vanished era and the vacancy that replaces it today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49728748683537,"sku":"NGR9780262026062","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262026066.jpg?v=1751133157"},{"product_id":"industrial-landscapes-book-bernd-becher-9780262025072","title":"Industrial Landscapes","description":"Photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher of industrial structures amid their natural surroundings.Bernd and Hilla Becher have profoundly influenced the international photography world over the past several decades. Their unique genre, which falls somewhere between topological documentation and conceptual art, is in line with the aesthetics of such early-twentieth-century masters of German photography as Karl Blossfeldt, Germaine Krull, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and August Sander.Industrial Landscapes introduces a new aspect to the Bechers' photography, one that will surprise connoisseurs of their work. Whereas their previously published works concentrated on isolated industrial objects, they now show huge industrial sites amid their natural surroundings. They move away from the objective, severe image to present slightly more narrative, interpretive images of the industrial environment as a whole. Although the photographs in Industrial Landscapes were taken over the past forty years, they are published here for the first time. The industrial structures shown include a wide range of coal mines, iron ore mines, steel mills, power stations with cooling towers, lime kilns, grain elevators, and so on. They represent industrial regions in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States (Alabama, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50265762136337,"sku":"CIN0262025078G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262025078.jpg?v=1750940396"},{"product_id":"basic-forms-of-industrial-buildings-book-bernd-becher-9780500542996","title":"Basic Forms of Industrial Buildings","description":"Bernd and Hilla Becher are among those rare artists whose work is part of widely differing collections all over the world. In the visual arts, they have ranked since the 1960s alongside major figures in minimal and conceptual art such as Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Robert Smithson and Sol LeWitt. In the history of photography, their work is mentioned in the same breath as Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, Karl Blossfeldt and August Sander, with whom the Bechers share a passion for the documentary and narrative qualities of the medium. Culturally, their brilliant black and white photographs of industrial buildings are rooted in the history of architecture and engineering, where their work provided an early research tool and resource for industrial archaeologists seeking to broaden the scope of architectural conservation. With their photographs of water towers and winding towers, blast furnaces, silos and gas tanks, over sixty of which are reproduced in this book, Bernd and Hilla Becher set new standards in perceptual aesthetics, presenting heavy industry as an object of art. Rendered timeless by the camera and isolated from their original, often perplexingly complex surroundings, they appear as monumental symbols of their own history - with all the stylistic diversity of the great masterpieces of architecture.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50445907198225,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50445907296529,"sku":"GOR005751584","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0500542996.jpg?v=1750942768"},{"product_id":"blast-furnaces-book-bernd-becher-9780262023115","title":"Blast Furnaces","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50465241497873,"sku":"CIN0262023113G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51914510860561,"sku":"CIN0262023113VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52770919022865,"sku":"GOR014613526","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262023113.jpg?v=1750813307"},{"product_id":"stonework-and-lime-kilns-book-bernd-becher-9781597112529","title":"Stonework and Lime Kilns","description":"Over the course of nearly five decades, Bernd and Hilla Becher documented almost every type of industrial architecture—from water towers and steel mills to gas tanks and grain silos—in Europe and the United States. 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Although a small number of these images have been included in previous monographs, this is the first publication to showcase a comprehensive collection of the Bechers’ study of stonework and lime kilns.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50697603055889,"sku":"NGR9781597112529","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1597112526.jpg?v=1751087888"},{"product_id":"pennsylvania-coal-mine-tipples-book-bernd-becher-9780944521236","title":"Pennsylvania Coal Mine Tipples","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50763561926929,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50763565039889,"sku":"CIN0944521231G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0944521231.jpg?v=1750747639"},{"product_id":"bernd-und-hilla-becher-basic-forms-book-bernd-becher-9783829606943","title":"Bernd Und Hilla Becher - Basic Forms","description":"During their 40-year career Bernd and Hilla Becher created an invaluable photographic encyclopedia of industrial structures. 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