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Factories for mining, carving, and refining of stones and minerals are structures from the “Stone Age” of industrialization. Finding them all over the world, Bernd and Hilla Becher documented them in their signature style, leading us back to the times when physical labor developed from a craft into organized manufacturing.
In Kühltürme (Cooling Towers), Bernd & Hilla Becher focus on cooling towers, from the early wood-clad towers of coal mines to recent steel or concrete constructions of atomic power stations.
Typologies of industrial buildings are a trademark of Bernd and Hilla Becher, internationally celebrated exponents of independent object photography.
"Coal Mines and Steel Mills" features both wellknown and hitherto unpublished pictures of coal mines and iron works across the world. Given that the end of iron smelting and coal mining in Europe is only a matter of time, it provides a nostalgic series of striking industrial history images.