The catalog of a major Becher retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum, New York, in 2022 which traces the biographical and art historical aspects of Bernd and Hilla Becher‘s seminal œuvre. Focussing on the vocabulary of the visible and systematically exploring a single subject – industrial architecture – they founded and pioneered a new tradition of documentary photography.
The Met, New York, 15.7. – 6.11.2022
SFMoMA, San Francisco, 17.12.2022 – 2.4.2023

Schirmer/Mosel. In association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. With essays by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Virginia Heckert, Lucy Sante and an interview with Max Becher. 282 pages, 108 duotone plates and typologies, 144 partly colour ill. Size: 24 x 27.8 cm, hardcover. English original edition.