[Study of Technical Details]
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.In 2013 Hilla Becher informed Thomas Weaver, the British architectural historian, that after her apprenticeship with the photographer Walter Eichgrün she was “crazy about metal. . . . I was absolutely obsessed with it. . . . My experience was that metal and black-and-white photography came together very nicely. Strangely, the same thing doesn’t happen with brick. I was always really mad at brick buildings because they look so stupid somehow. Whereas if you look up at a metal blast furnace, for example, you see something that has this half-matte, half-glossy surface. It’s here that you discover, if not beauty, then at least something similar.”
Artwork Details
- Title: [Study of Technical Details]
- Artist: Hilla Becher (German, 1934–2015)
- Date: 1964
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 7 7/8 × 15 5/8 in. (20 × 39.7 cm)
Frame: 16 5/16 × 24 3/16 in. (41.5 × 61.5 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher, courtesy Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur—Bernd & Hilla Becher Archive, Cologne.
- Rights and Reproduction: © Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher, courtesy Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur—Bernd & Hilla Becher Archive, Cologne.
- Curatorial Department: Photographs