Industriehallen (Industrial Facades), 2006

In the Typlogies series, of which this edition is a part, as in all of Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs, objectivity and formal stringency prevail, whereby the sober registration of the factual almost inevitably leads to the formation of series. When the artists began their work in 1959, the juxtaposition of functionally and structurally similar buildings became a pool from which a strategy characteristic of their work emerged. The serial principle leads to the typologies of industrial buildings that predominate in their work. The precise arrangement and balancing of the visual weighting within the overall tableau plays a pivotal role here.