Industrial Facades Tapa dura - 1995

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1998. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Features an introduction by Klaus Bussmann. Includes 264 duotone images of various industrial settings with the focus of this monograph on the fronts of factory buildings. A tight close to near fine copy in cloth boards with some bumping to the top rear corner that also impacts the top corner of the text block and in a near fine dust jacket with the same bumping to the top rear coner and some other minor wear. The Becher's are the subject of a major retrospective exhibition that is currently on view at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art after a well reviewed run at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

E-243: The MIT Press. Very Good. 1995. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 1995. 273 pgs. Illustrated throughout. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The more than two hundred striking duotone plates in Hilla and Bernd Becher's Industrial Facades continue the famous photographers' formal investigation of industrial structures, in this case the frontal elevations of factory buildings. Like the Bechers' earlier books on water towers, blast furnaces, and gas tanks, Industrial Facades once again clearly displays their serenely cool, rigorous approach to the structures they photograph as vaariations on an ideal form. The Bechers make no attempt to analyze or explain their subjects. Captions contain… Leer más

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. Hardcover. VG/VG. Black cloth boards with gray spine lettering; white dust jacket, bw illustrated and black lettering; 7 pp, 264 pp of bw plates. "The more than two-hundred striking duotone plates in Hilla and Bernd Becher's 'Industrial Facades' continue the famous Dusseldorf photographers' formal investigation of industrial structures, in this case the frontal elevations of factory buildings. Like the Bechers's earlier books on water towers, blast furnaces, and gas tanks, 'Industrial Facades' once again clearly displays their serenely cool, rigorous approach to the structures they photograph as variations on an ideal form. The Bechers make no attempt to analyze or explain their subjects. Captions contain only the barest of information: time and place." - dust jacket. Includes an introduction by Klaus Bussmann.