July 19th: Jeff L. Rosenheim, Lucy Sante and Elisa Urbanelli on Bernd & Hilla Becher
Presented by 192 Books and Paula Cooper Gallery, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Lucy Sante Elisa Urbanelli will discuss the upcoming Met exhibition and catalogue.
The live event will stream directly on this page on Tuesday, July 19th at 7 pm ET. There is no login or rsvp required. A recording will be posted shortly afterwards. If you have a question during the event, please email it to Evan@192Books.com.
Bernd & Hilla Becher - Jeff L. Rosenheim with essays by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Virginia Heckert, Lucy Sante, and an interview with Max Becher. (Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2022).
For more than five decades, Bernd (1931–2007) and Hilla (1934–2015) Becher collaborated on photographs of industrial architecture in Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, and the United States. This sweeping monograph features the Bechers’ quintessential pictures, which present water towers, gas tanks, blast furnaces, and more as sculptural objects. Beyond the Bechers’ iconic Typologies, the book includes Bernd’s early drawings, Hilla’s independent photographs, and excerpts from their notes, sketchbooks, and journals. The book’s authors offer new insights into the development of the artists’ process, their work’s conceptual underpinnings, the photographers’ relationship to deindustrialization, and the artists’ legacy. An essay by award-winning cultural historian Lucy Sante and an interview with Max Becher, the artists’ son, make this volume an unrivaled look into the Bechers’ art, life, and career.
Accompanies an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, on view July 15 – November 6, 2022 and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, on view December 17, 2022 – April 2, 2023.
Jeff L. Rosenheim is Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and organizer of the catalogue and exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher. His other publications include diane arbus: in the beginning, Irving Penn: Centennial, Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection, and Photography and the American Civil War.
Lucy Sante is a contributor to the Bernd & Hilla Becher catalogue. Her books include Low Life, Kill All Your Darlings, The Other Paris, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, and most recently Nineteen Reservoirs. She teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
Elisa Urbanelli is Senior Editor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and edited the Bernd & Hilla Becher catalogue. In her more than eight years at The Met, she has edited award-winning and best-selling catalogues on a wide range of topics. Her previous projects at the Museum include Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, Gerhard Richter: Painting After All, Irving Penn: Centennial, and Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer.