Bernd and Hilla Becher’s industrial art

To digital photographers Bernd and also Hilla Becher, the quickly disappearing commercial design of Western Europe and also The United States and Canada were masterpieces. The German pair’s docudrama photos of transmission towers, gas storage tanks, blast heaters and also smokestacks– frameworks that symbolized completion of a commercial age– are being commemorated in a thorough retrospective currently at the San Francisco Gallery of Modern Art. Lee Cowan uses us a scenic tour.