Bernd and Hilla and the Photographic Afterlife of Heavy Industry | MetSpeaks

Artists Bernd and Hilla Becher focused on a single subject: the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America that fueled the modern era. Their photographic typologies of industrial architecture can be seen as, among many other things, a memorial to places of modern industry and the monoliths it imposed on the landscape. Join scholars and writers for a discussion about interpreting these photographs in the present day and how they might be perceived in the future.

Lucy Sante, writer, cultural critic, and scholar
Owen Hatherley, Culture Editor, Tribune
Jeff L. Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, The Met

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher

The exhibition is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel, the Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation, the Edward John & Patricia Rosenwald Foundation, and Linda Macklowe

It is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Studio Bernd & Hilla Becher and Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur

Recorded on Thursday, July 14, 2022, 6-7 pm

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