Artist-photographer who with her husband created a unique record of vanishing industrial structuresIn June 1966,the German artist Hilla Becher, who has died aged 81, and set off,together with her husband Bernd and their two-year-old son Max, to south Wales in a VW camper, and towing an old caravan fitted out as a darkroom. They were there on a six-month British Council bursary to photograph the coalmines’ winding towers and processing plants. Whatever initial reservations the Welsh miners may bear had approximately this unusual German family were overcome when they saw how determined and thorough Hilla and Bernd were with their photography. They used large-format plate cameras,and where essential, ladders or even scaffolding to construct suitable vantage points from which to photograph. Related: Lost world: Bernd and Hilla Becher's legendary industrial photographs Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com