Sprüth Magers is proud to present a selection of photographs by Bernd & Hilla Becher at FOG Design+Art 2023 to coincide with the major survey of their work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, on view through 2 April 2023.
Widely considered the most influential German photographers of the postwar period, the Bechers captured the aesthetics of disappearing industrial facilities for over fifty years, often making the overlooked structures visible to viewers for the first time. Their strict adherence to particular formal principles and their typological approach gave rise to the idea of photography as conceptual art, and through their tenure at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, they helped shape an entire generation of photographers, including Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth.