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Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931–2007, 1934–2015) began taking photographs of framework houses in Siegen’s industrial region early on in their artistic career. Produced between 1958 and 1974, this body of work proved the value of the consistent depiction of a type of object in so-called typologies.
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Analysis and synthesis were not to be accomplished solely in a precise individual image but in the quasi-scientific grouping of the photographs as well.
Bernd and Hilla Becher published their first book on the subject in 1977, which would be followed by further monographically arranged books on individual industrial building types.
In the book on framework houses one learns that this typical form of post construction (Ständerfachwerk) had begun developing in the late nineteenth century in the Siegerland, one of the oldest ore mining regions. Plain and assembled out of individual prefabricated elements, this is a markedly economical, rationalized construction method.
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