Bernd und Hilla Becher
1931 Siegen – Rostock 2007 und 1934 Berlin – Düsseldorf 2015
Wasserturm, Trier-Ehrang
Gelatin silver print on photography paper.
Karl and Faber
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SIZE MATTERS. SCALE IN PHOTOGRAPHY. Kunstpalast, Berlin Group Show. 31st Jan 2024.
"Everything changes in an image when the zoom slider is adjusted: certain things are highlighted, detached from their context, exaggerated or reinterpreted. They move closer to us, allowing us to study them, or blur before our eyes"
The scale of a pictorial subject or image format harbours great creative possibilities – but also the potential for manipulation. For the first time, an exhibition comprehensively examines the considerable yet often subtle shifts in meaning that accompany changes in size in photography. Works from the late nineteenth century to the present day raise questions about how scale affects our perception and handling of photographic images.
Photography can change its dimensions more easily than any other medium; pictures can be effortlessly blown up into large images on museum walls and billboards, or shrunk down to a thumbnail on a mobile phone screen. While photography traditionally reproduces the world in miniature, it can also present things in a life-size or even larger-than-life-size format and render the invisible visible.
“While painters have to determine the size of their canvas before applying the first brushstroke, photography is a medium without fixed measurements at the moment of its creation when the shutter is released. It is only afterwards that a decision is made about whether an image will materialise and, if so, in what dimensions,” explains Felix Krämer, general director of the Kunstpalast. “A defining and unique feature of photography is that size is a mutable quality, which is something we want to highlight with this exhibition.”
Bernd und Hilla Becher, Kristleifur Björnsson, Karl Blossfeldt, Georg Böttger, Katt Both, Renata Bracksieck, Natalie Czech, Jan Dibbets, Josef Maria Eder und Eduard Valenta, Leonard Elfert, Claudia Fährenkemper, Hanna Josing, Alex Grein, Andreas Gursky, Franz Hanfstaengl, Erik Kessels, Heinrich Koch, Jochen Lempert, Rosa Menkman, Duane Michals, Joanna Nencek, Floris M. Neusüss, Georg Pahl, Trevor Paglen, W. Paulcker, Sigmar Polke, Seth Price, Timm Rautert, Amanda Ross-Ho, Evan Roth, Thomas Ruff, August Sander, Adrian Sauer, Morgaine Schäfer, Hugo Schmölz, Karl-Hugo Schmölz, Katharina Sieverding, Kathrin Sonntag, Lucia Sotnikova, Simon Starling, Clare Strand, Carl Strüwe, Andrzej Steinbach, Julius Stinde, Anna Stüdeli, Wolfgang Tillmans, Moritz Wegwerth, René Zuber
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Bernd und Hilla Becher Dortmund, 1979
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2021年3月22日
【新入荷・新本】
Bernd und Hilla Becher『Grundformen / Formes élémentaires』(Schirmer/Mosel、2020年)
160 pages. 17 x 24 cm. Hardcover. French/German.
価格:5,700円(税込)
Bernd und Hilla Becher『Zeche Hannibal』(Schirmer/Mosel、2000年)
128 pages. 27.4 x 29.6 cm. Hardcover. English/German.
価格:9,500円(税込)
Bernd und Hilla Becher『Coal Mines and Steel Mills』(Schirmer/Mosel、2010年)
188 pages. 28 x 28 cm. Hardcover. English.
価格:11,000円(税込)
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ドイツ現代写真界にベッヒャーシューレ(ベッヒャー派)という大きな潮流を生み出したベルント&ヒラ・ベッヒャー。タイポロジー(類型学)というコンセプトに基づいて建築物を記録したベッヒャー夫妻の写真集3タイトルが入荷しました。
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Bernd and Hilla Becher, Fachwerkhäuser des Siegener Industriegebietes, 1959-1978 [Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen. Straßenseiten Fachwerk, Sammlung Gegenwartskunst, Dauerleihgabe Peter Paul Rubens-Stiftung und Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln. © Estate Bernd und Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher. Photo: © Christian Wickler]
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