Bernd & Hilla Becher (1931-2007 & b. 1934)

From left to right; top to bottom:
(i) Siège Cheratte, Puits no. 3, Liège, 1970
(ii) Fosse Grenay no. 1, Bully-les-Mines, Nord, 1967
(iii) Fosse Vicoigne no. 3, Valenciennes, Nord, 1967
(iv) Siège Josè, Hevre, 1970
(v) Siège Micheroux, Liège, 1971
(vi) Fosse Dutemple, Valenciennes, Nord 1967
(vii) Siège Colard, Liège-Seraing, 1969
(viii) Charbonnage Monceau Fontaine, Charleroi, 1967
(ix) Morton Colliery, Derbyshire, 1974
(x) Siège Cuvelette, Merlebach, Lorraine, 1978
(xi) Bold Colliery, St. Helens, Lancashire 1966
(xii) Fosse Grenay no. 11, Grenay, Nord, 1967


'Technology is above requiring an interpretation; it interprets itself. You merely need to select the right objects and place them precisely in the picture; then they tell their story of their own accord.' (M. Köhler, 'Interview mit Bernd und Hilla Becher', in Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Munich, 1989, p. 14. Reprinted in A. Zweite, 'Bernd and Hilla Becher's "Suggestion for a Way of Seeing": Ten Key Ideas' in Bernd & Hilla Becher: Typologies, Cambridge, 2004, p. 9).