Bernd & Hilla Becher, First Retrospective – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931-2007; 1934-2015) are widely regarded as the most influential German photographers of the post-war period. A rare artistic couple, they developed a rigorous practice focused on a single subject: the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America that fuelled modernism.

Image caption: Bernd and Hilla Becher, Framework House, 1961 © Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher, Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.