Field Trips
Bernd & Hilla Becher ; Robert Smithson
ed. by James Lingwood

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Editor(s)

James Lingwood

Publication, year

Porto : Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, 2002

Scope

171 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.

ISBN

8877571462

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In December 1968, the American artist Robert Smithson embarked on a field trip to the huge industrial complex in the Ruhr district of Germany. His local guides were the Düsseldorf-based artist duo of Bernd and Hilla Becher. The Bechers had begun their own project of photographing the vernacular industrial architecture of Northern Europe in the early 1960s, and had already spent several months photographing at Oberhausen as well as at adjacent industrial sites. The different series of photographs made by Smithson and the Bechers of the same site foreground their respective preoccupations with the industrial landscape and the process of production and entropy.

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Person as subject

Bernd & Hilla Becher, Robert Smithson

Keywords

photography

Location

Cabinet 7 - 4: Kunstenaars

Remarks

Incl. list of works and Biographies.