First edition (German). Signed in pencil on the front end paper by Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher. Hardcover. Cloth, with dust jacket. Brief texts (in German) by Reyner Banham and Bernd and Hilla Becher. 240 pp. with 223 duotone plates. 11 3/8 x 10 5/8 inches. CONDITION: New in New dust jacket (opened only for signature). [Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).] From the publisher: "Typological, repetitive, at times oddly humorous, Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs of industrial structures are, in their cumulative effect, profoundly moving. The Bechers' serenely cool, disarmingly objective, and notoriously obsessive images of water towers, gas tanks, grain elevators, blast furnaces, and mineheads have been taken over a period of almost [forty] years, under overcast skies, with a view camera that captures each detail and tonality of wood, concrete, brick and steel."
