Bernd & Hilla Becher

Bernd Becher: born in Siegen District, Germany, 1931; died in Rostock, Germany, 2007
Hilla Becher: born in Berlin, Germany, 1934

For more than forty years they have been recording the heritage of an industrial past. Their systematic photography of functionalist architecture brought them recognition as conceptual artists as well as photographers. Generations of documentary photographers and artists are influenced by the founders of the ‘Becher school’ in Düsseldorf, Germany.