Anodyne
Monday, June 25, 2007
 

RIP Bernd Becher, photographer, teacher, conceptual artist. Present in his double-authored [with his fellow artist-teacher and wife Hilla Becher's] work: beauty, intellectual rigor, deep humility, the rare ability to perceive functional objects aesthetically, and the acceptance of the sequence, series, and typology as valid artistic forms. There would be no Ghosts without the Bechers, no Frees, no Grace James, and definitely no Every Bus Stop In Surrey, B.C., still my favorite of all of S.'s works. Some people plant trees for others to sit under; the Bechers planted water towers (and gas tanks, and blast furnaces, and frame houses, and winding towers) in S.'s and my minds.
- posted by cjb @ 11:34 PM


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