Hilla studied photography in Potsdam, Germany, worked as an aerial photographer briefly in Hamburg, and moved to Düsseldorf in 1959. The couple met there that year, began collaborating, and married in 1961. The Bechers' photographs are instantly recognizable.
What did the Bechers photograph for their first series?
What did they photograph? Industrial structures including water towers, coal bunkers, gas tanks and factories. Their work had a documentary style as their images were always taken in black and white. Their photographs never included people.
What is the Dusseldorf school?
The Dusseldorf School of Photography refers to a group of photographers who studied at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in the mid 1970s under the influential photographers Bernd and Hiller Becher. Thomas Struth. Shinju-ku (Skyscrapers), Tokyo 1986 1986.
Who influenced Bernd and Hilla Becher?
Weimar movement
What is photographic typology?
A photographic typology is a single photograph or more commonly a body of photographic work, that shares a high level of consistency. This consistency is usually found within the subjects, environment, photographic process, and presentation or direction of the subject.
Why was the Dusseldorf School of photography so important?
The School were vital in rehabilitating the reputation of photography as an artistic medium following WWII. The lasting legacy of the School has been to elevate the reputation of photography to equal that of painting.
What defines the style of the Dusseldorf School of photography?
The Düsseldorf School had made photography "easy" by focusing on the mundane and the everyday meaning that anyone could pick up a camera and claim their work was important art.